Edward Victor Turner                 Updated:  29 JAN 2022


Airman:
 a107023.htm Surname: Turner Init: E V Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 82

P_link: p015.htm Plane: BLE R3800 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Limfjorden

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

BLE R3800 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940. Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.

Google Map p014-024 (Kilde: Ole Rønnest)

To minutter senere (kl. 12.19) styrtede 2. R 3800 ned (her) ved den tyske vandflyveplads. Syms og Wright reddede sig med faldskærme. Turner blev dræbt i flyet. (Find nummeret (1.-11.) i angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)  

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Edward Victor Turner, 20 år, var søn af Henry Charles og
Margaret Mary Turner, United Kingdom.
(Kilde: CWGC)

Bombeflyet Bristol Blenheim. p015MACR  Se Tyske flyvepladser ved Aalborg. 3 flyvere.
 
BLE R3800 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)

Two minutes later (at 12:19),  2. R 3800 crashed (here) close to the German seaplane landing area. Parachutes saved the lives of Syms and Wright.
Turner was killed in the aircraft. (Find the number (1.-11.) in Attack on - in text from Shot down over Denmark)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Edward Victor Turner, 20, was the son of Henry Charles and Margaret Mary Turner, 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 R3800 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p015MACR  3 airmen.