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(Login peteoloug)
Posted Sep 1, 2006 10:17 AM
Hi anybody!
Still trying to find out more details about the aircraft my wife's uncle flew in. He was rear gunner - Sgt Denis Doyle. Killed in action.
Halifax II HR874 EY-B
Failed to return on Sept 6 1943 on the Mannheim Raid.
Eddie supplied me with much needed info back in January.
Want to build a model of the plane using the Revell kit.
My research suggests different configurations for MK 11s - some with nose turrets, some with nose turret replaced with a streamlined fairing.
The Revell kit doesn't have the fairing but does have the plexiglass nose for a GRII version.
Am assuming from the crew list that there was no front turret and upper turret was the low profile type.
Would this plane have had a nose streamline fairing or plexiglass?
Acutal plane is down as one of a batch of 152 built as B/GR Mk II series 1 and enetred service between March and July 1943.
Also on the lookout for any photographs of the actual plane! (You can but hope).
Finally thanks to Eddie I know that three of the crew survived -
Sgt Muldoon - navigator
Sgt G Jones - Air bomber
Sgt Mott - flight engineer
and am still trying to trace any info on them.
All the best
Pete O'Loughlin
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