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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of West-Vlaanderen:
Brugge

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Crash site of Blenheim R3896-LS
7/07/1940

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Unit: 15 Squadron
Aircraft: Blenheim
Code: R3896-LS
Base: Wyton
Mission: Reconnaissance
Crew officer: P/O BAMBER, HUGH CHRISTOPHER MORRIS
Incident: Shot down by German fighter

Location: (Prov. West-Vlanderen)

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Facts

On 7 July 1940, this aircraft flew out of Alconbury near RAF Wyton on an operation to Ghent and crashed at Dudzele near Bruges after being shot down by a Messerchmitt Bf109E of the ‘Grünherz’.

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Sources:
He Was Hero
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
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