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416 City of Oshawa Squadron (Ad solturn paratus) RCAF Digby. Flying Officer Norman Alexander Watt (RCAF) was killed in action when his Spitfire Vb aircraft BL 655 spun out of the clouds and crashed in a wheat field six miles south-east of RCAF Station, Digby, England. The wreckage of this fighter was re-located and excavated by aviation enthusiasts in August of 1989 buried nine feet in the mud, a presentation aircraft sponsored by the British Patriotic Fund in Argentina and a portion is now on display in a museum in England. Flying Officer Watt had been slightly injured on March 28, 1943 when a Miles Master aircraft, from 61 OTU, had engine failure and crashed on take-off from the Rednal aerodrome, England. Flying Officer Pilot Watt is buried in the Scopwick Church Burial Grouns, Scopwick, Lincolnshire, England. Addendum: - Flying Officer Watt had taken off from Digby with two other pilots from 416 squadron on a routine training flight. As the three aircraft were in a tail chase, Pilot Officer Phillips and Sgt. J L A Cahlot lost sight of Watt, spotting his aircraft later in an inverted dive from which it did not recover before plunging into the soft ground of the Lincolnshire fen. The remains of BL 655 are displayed at the East Kirkby Aviation Museum, they will stand as a memorial to a young Canadian pilot who gave his life in the service of his King and Country at the age of twenty-one. Detail provided by David E Thompson, Middlesborough, England
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ora6fULpv4g, (16) The Tragic Story of Spitfire BL 655 - YouTube
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