K. H. Wright Updated: 29 JAN 2022
Airman: o888029.htm Surname: Wright Init: K
H Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 82
P_link: p015.htm Plane: BLE R3800 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Limfjorden
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: o888
C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
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 K. H. Wright var navigatør på R 3800. (Kilde: p015MACR.) Han blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p015MACR
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 K. H. Wright was the Navigator of R 3800. (Source: p015MACR.) He was taken to German POW-Camps.
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 R3800 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p015MACR 3 airmen.