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DSxxx Series

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Photo
Serial
Struck Off
Fate
Last Operation
Details
DS821
1943-12-31
Ditched
Berlin
Served with 514 Sqn. Badly shot up by night fighter and forced to ditch in the sea.
DS822
1944-06-13
Crashed
Massy-Palaiseau.
Served with 514 Sqn. Crashed at Celle-les-Bordes.
DS823
1944-03-02
Shot down
Leipzig
Served with 514 Sqn. Shot down by night fighter and crashed at Essern-Osterloh.
DS824
1944-01-28
Crashed
Magdeburg
Served with 514 Sqn. Crashed in the Ijsselmeer.
DS825
1943-11-22
Crashed
Gardening
Served with 514 Sqn and 115 Sqn. Starboard outer engine cut out on take off and aircraft left runway. Port inner engine caught fire.
DS826
1945-03-20
Served with 514 Sqn, 1678 HCU, 514 Sqn, 1668 HCU.
DS827
1944-02-29
Crashed
Training
Served with 115 Sqn. Crashed at Great Dunmow.
DS828
1944-05-01
Shot down
Dusseldorf
Served with 514 Sqn, 1678 HCU, 514 Sqn. Either shot down by flak or collided with DS669. Crashed in target area.
DS829
1944-03-21
Abandoned
Stuttgart
Served with 426 Sqn, 432 Sqn, 426 Sqn. All became PoWs. Sgt Nicholls died of TB in Stalag Luft III of TB and was buried locally. Post war, unable to locate the grave, so is remembered on the Runnymede memorial.
DS830
1945-03-20
Served with 426 Sqn, 432 Sqn, 426 Sqn, 408 Sqn, 1668 HCU.
DS831
1943-12-17
Shot down
Berlin
Served with 408 Sqn and 432 Sqn. Shot down by Oblt Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (IV./NJG1) and crashed inbetween Wijtgaard and Weidum.
DS832
1943-12-28
Abandoned
Berlin
Served with 408 Sqn and 432 Sqn. Ran out of petrol near Castleton, Whitby.

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