Hurricane Z2510 IIA or B or C - Combat - 1941-12-01 to 1941-12-01
Squadron: 274 (F) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1941-12-01
Completion Date: 1941-12-01
Mission: Combat
Operation: unspecified
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Base: LG 124
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Crash City: Libya
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Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
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War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

274 Squadron (Supero) RAF Landing Ground 124, Libya. Hurricane Z2510 was shot down by Me-109's. Pilot Flight Lieutenant (the Flight Sergeant) DW Almon (RCAF) baled out, wounded in ankle before his aircraft crashed near El Adem, Libya. He survived and was taken Prisoner of War, held first in Italian POW camp PG 59 in Sevigliano, Italy, March 1942 and later moved to Stalag Luft 4, Poland

Flight Lieutenant Almon was safe back in the UK 1945-04-18

In Enemy Hands, Canadian Prisoners of War 1939-45

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