Picture of unknown crashed a/c

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There’s 2 more battles there, but I can’t see twin fins

Yep, you’re right – my imagination running away with me 🙁

Roger Smith.

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There’s 2 more battles there, but I can’t see twin fins

Is that an AW Whitley behind – the fuselage beyond the twin fin/rudders looks too rotund though – perhaps a bristol Bombay?

Roger Smith.

There are the remains of three Battles there two of which are 142 Sqn.

I think the one nearst the camera is K9366, it was abandoned at Berry-au-Bec along with K7700 and L5540 during the Squadron’s withdrawl to Faux Villecerf on the 17th may 1940.

When it is a Battle a/c , it must be this a/c:

Battle I (L5502), shot down on 28.07.1940 and crashed 1km sw of Audembert.
the 3 crew member was pow.

It is the only one crashed Battle from 142. sqdn

Regards

Nils

I’d say it’s a post Battle of France (or Belgium) scrap-yard with several Battles in it. All the identifiable chunks are Battle.

HTH

It is not the crashsite, I thing it is a place of scrap. Some other aircrafts in the background to see. Maybe I can read the name of the place from the backsite of the picture. will ask my father tomorrow…

Is that in fact a photo of a number of Battles in a field? ie. it’s not a photo of a crash site, rather some sort of Battle graveyard? But what’s happened to all the “glasshouses”, none visible on any aircraft and indeed the one in the foreground appears to have faired over patch more-or-less where I would have thought the rear of the canopy would be. Interesting photo.

Hi Nils,
It’s a Fairey Battle; the fin/rudder set-up is quite distinctive.

Probably shot-down May 1940, and Delve, ‘Source Book of the RAF’ gives ‘QT’ as 142 Sqn, Battles.
Cheers