Squadron: 412 (F) Sqn (RCAF)

Start Date: 1942-08-19

Completion Date: 1942-08-19

Mission: Sweep

Operation: Operation Jubilee

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Base: RAF Merston

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Crash City: English Channel

Crash Specifics: off the coast of Dieppe, France

Crash Latitude: 0.00000000

Crash Longitude: 0.00000000

Crash Reason: flak

Flak Battery: unspecified

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War Diary Unavailable

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412 Falcon Squadron (Promyus ad vindictum) RAF Merston. Spitfire Vb aircraft EN 831 VZ-J went down off the coast of Dieppe, France during Operation Jubilee, shot down by flak

Pilot Officer John Neville Brookhouse (RCAF) missing, believed killed in action. His body was not recovered and has no known grave. Pilot Officer Brookhouse is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

Spitfire EN 831 was a "Presentation Spitfire" named Mary P Lyle, London. This was a program where communities or individuals funded the construction of an aircraft

The Greatest Air Battle, Dieppe, 19th August 1942 by Norman Franks, pages 95, 235

Unvetted Source Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

Unvetted Source Dieppe: Shootdowns...German? and British losses - The Great Captain

Unvetted Source Spitfire pilots and aircraft database -

General RAF Commands

Spitfire EN831 Mk Vb - Sweep - 1942-08-19 to 1942-08-19