Squadron: 430 (S/R) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1945-04-26
Completion Date: 1945-04-26
Mission: Reconnaissance
Operation: unspecified
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Base: RAF Landing Ground B.108, Rheine, Germany
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Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics: crashed fifteen miles north-east of Verden
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Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: engine
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430 City of Sudbury Squadron (Celeriter certoque) RAF Landing Ground B.108, Rheine, Germany. While on a tactical reconnaissance flight, Flying Officer Hedley reported by radio/telephone that he had lost oil pressure on the engine of his Spitfire aircraft RM 821 and that the engine had failed. As he baled from the aircraft, his parachute entangled with the tail assembly. Flying Officer L P Hedley (RCAF) was killed in action when the Spitfire crashed fifteen miles north-east of Verden, Germany
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Spitfire pilots and aircraft database - Flying Officer Lloyd Peter Hedley RCAF