Kenneth Victor Turner                         Updated: 29 JAN 2022


Airman:
 a107022.htm Surname: Turner Init: K V Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 82

P_link: p019.htm Plane: BLE R3904 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: At Aabybro. 2 km E

Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: b160840 C_link: c107.htm At_Next: Vadum

BLE R3904 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940. Nedstyrtningsstedet er her. Google Map p014-024 (Kilde: Ole Rønnest)

Så snart A-flighten var ude af flak-bæltet faldt de 9 tyske jagere over den. 6. R 3904 blev ramt først og styrtede ned (her)
ved Aabybro. Newland, piloten, reddede sig i faldskærm. Ankers og Turner omkom i flyet.
(Find nummeret (1.-11.) i angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Kenneth Victor Turner var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Bombeflyet Bristol Blenheim. p019MACR  Se Tyske flyvepladser ved Aalborg. 3 flyvere.

BLE R3904 took part in the attack on Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940.
The crash site is here. See also Google Map p014-024. (Source: Ole Rønnest)

As soon af A-flight had come through the anti-aircraft fire the nine German fighters swooped on them. 6. R 3904 was hit first and crashed (here) at Aabybro.
Newland, the pilot, landed safely by parachute.  Ankers and Turner died in the crash. (Find the number (1.-11.) in Attack on - in text from Shot down over Denmark)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Kenneth Victor Turner was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 256.

See No. 82 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 82 Squadron Blenheims, Watton, 1940 * Bristol Blenheim * German airfields near Aalborg.
Aircraft Restoration Company, Duxford - Bristol Blenheim * Blenheim L6739 -- Rolled Out.  Photo: RAF Memorial, Watton by Ole Rønnest
The reconstructed R3821  that visited Aalborg in 2000 due to efforts by Ole Rønnest.

Blenheim IV R3904 UX-F took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this+Archive Report.) Bristol Blenheim*p019MACR
3 airmen.