Operation: Zuara
Date: 04th October 1941 (Thursday)
Unit: No. 107 Squadron
Type: Blenheim IV
Serial: V5821
Base: RAF Luqa, Malta
Location: Mediterranean Sea, off Zuara (now Zuwara)
Pilot: Sgt. D.E. Hamlyn RAFVR - Survived - interned
Obs: Sgt. Charles Aubrey Latter RAAF - Survived - interned (1)
W/Op/Air/Gnr: Sgt, D. Williams RAFVR - Survived - interned
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took off from RAF Luqa in Malta to attack ground targets at Zuara airfield in Libya. Attacked by CR.42 fighters over the Mediterranean Sea and ditched some 96 km north of Tripoli at 14.30 hrs.
Above: Blenheim IV's and below the Fiat CR. 42 Fighter
(1) Charles Aubrey Latter died in 1953.
Burial details:
None - all crew survived.
Researched and dedicated to the relatives of this crew with thanks to Roger Strong - relative of the observer, Sgt. Latter. Graham Warner - 'The Bristol Blenheim’. David Gunby and Pelham Temple - 'Bomber Losses Middle East and Mediterranean Vol. 1', Sydney Morning Herald.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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