Douglas Alfred John Parfitt Updated: 27 JAN 2022
Airman: a107012.htm Surname: Parfitt
Init: DAJ Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 82
P_link: p014.htm Plane: BLE T1933 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Restrup Enge
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: b160840 C_link: c107.htm At_Next: Vadum
BLE R1933 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940.
Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.
Google Map p014-024 (Kilde:
Ole Rønnest)
A-flightens seks fly slap gennem flakskytset og
fik kastet deres bomber. Da B-flighten omtrent et minut senere fulgte efter,
havde flakskytset skudt sig ind.
Kl. 12.17 styrtede 1. T 1933 brændende ned
(her)
på Restrup Enge. Parfitt, Youngs
og
Neaverson blev dræbt.
(Find nummeret
(1.-11.) i
angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Douglas Alfred John Parfitt var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p014MACR
BLE R1933 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)
The six aircraft of A-flight got through the flak
and released their bombs. As B-flight followed about a minute later, the
anti-aircraft fire had been adjusted.
At 12:17
1. T 1933
crashed in a tail of fire
(here) at Restrup Enge. Parfitt, Youngs
and
Neaverson were killed. (Find the number
(1.-11.) in
Attack on - in text from
Shot down over Denmark)
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Douglas Alfred John
Parfitt was from the United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 222.
See No. 82 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia
* 82 Squadron Blenheims,
Watton, 1940 * Bristol Blenheim
*
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 T1933 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p014MACR 3 airmen.