Losse Bristol Blenheim, September 1942

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  1. dan35

    dan35 Junior Member

    Hello,
    We are looking for a long time a loss of the Bristol Blenheim common PLOUGONVER (Brittany). in September 1942. This morning we just found in a magazine an important witness.
    The Bristol Blenheim had fallen on a Sunday evening fire (date unspecified) to 19 hours a moor between the villages of Kergus and Kervern. He had been hit by flak during a raid on Morlaix Airmen helped by the Mayor and his wife Plougonver could quickly reach Nantes and supported by a network of local escape quickly joined england. Mayor's wife was deported to Ravensbruck and Mauthausen died in April 1945.
    Sundays in September 1942. 6/13/20/27.
     
  2. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    Are you positive about the date or the identification of the aircraft as a Blenheim?
    The reason I ask is that by September 1942, the Blenheim was well on its way to be phased out of operations in the European theatre.
    Looking thorough Graham Warner's comprehensive book on the Bristol Blenheim, the only Blenheim losses for September 1942 are in OTUs or training accidents over the British Isles.
    Could it be another aircraft type?
     
  3. dan35

    dan35 Junior Member

    In fact I'm not on anything, because in the book there is the story of a child who then said: The crash occurred Sunday at around 19 hours. On Monday morning a boy tells his friends that he saw a plane that crashed on the moor coming to school.
    The author says in the book that the crash occurred on a Sunday evening around 19 pm, a Sunday in September 1942. The children had school the next day, then it seems to me that it was still school holidays in France at that time. Recovery should take place after October 1.
    The author of the book speaks of a Bristol Blenheim but it is on information. A witness saw two seats on the plane.
    Information on: Airmen helped by the mayor and his wife Plougonver could quickly reach Nantes and supported by a network of local escape quickly joined england.
     
  4. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    Dan,

    I have tried to trace this aircraft without success.

    From another line of investigation.What was the name of the mayor and his wife?....both extremely courageous and friends of the British.

    The Royal Air Forces Escaping Society might be able to help....details later.
     
  5. dan35

    dan35 Junior Member

    I want to write the author of the book for the Bristol Blenheim aircraft. The book has been written immediately after the war. The mayor and his wife has a lumber company, a sawmill. This is the Mayor Coantiec helped his son who hid the two airmen, they were two, at the third before he left the plane. Both were promptly taken care of for their escape to Nantes and quickly joined England.
     
  6. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    Dan,

    Do you know if the third man survived the crash.?

    There should be an account somewhere of the ordeal of the evaders.The other point is if they went south from Nantes,it would suggest a return to England via the Pyrenees,Spain and Gibraltar.

    I wondered before if the Blenheim was part of a Met Flight and not engaged in an air operation in the Morlaix area.
     
  7. dan35

    dan35 Junior Member

    In the book there was never any question of a third man, the witness saw a plane with two seats!
    If there was a third man he could evacuate the aircraft before the crash.
    Aircraft of coastal command ?
     
  8. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    Could the aircraft have been another Bristol type?
    A Beaufighter perhaps?
     
  9. dan35

    dan35 Junior Member

    The author of the book can be confused with the Bristol Blenheim Bristol Beaufighter, here we have two men to the crew !
     
  10. dan35

    dan35 Junior Member

    hello,
    I found a key witness yesterday, the crash took place Sunday, September 13, 1942. Two witnesses speak to me of a twin-engine aircraft, machine guns in the rear. A Bristol Beaufighter ?
     

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