Spitfire AB517 Mk Vc - Escort - 1942-08-19 to 1942-08-19
Squadron: 66 (F) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1942-08-19
Completion Date: 1942-08-19
Mission: Escort
Operation: Operation Jubilee
Target City:
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Tangmere
Take Off Time:
Squadron Code: LZ-
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Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: English Channel
Crash Specifics: 10 miles West of Dieppe, France
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: unspecified
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66 Squadron (Cavete Praemonui) RAF Tangmere. Flight Sergeant Ronald Harvey Loyns (RCAF) was missing, presumed killed in action when his Spitfire Vc aircraft AB 517 was shot down at sea by a German Focke-Wulf 190, ten miles west of Dieppe, France while escorting Boston bomber aircraft returning from an operation. Flight Sergeant Loyns body was not recovered and has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

There were over 100 Allied aircraft lost on this date.

The Greatest Air Battle, Dieppe, 19th August 1942, pages 154, 230

,span class="citation">Spitfire Mark V in Action, RAF Operations in Northern Europe by Peter Caygill, page 113

Unvetted Source Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

Unvetted Source Spitfire pilots and aircraft database - Spitfire AB517

Unvetted Source English Pilot page 1 - Jubilee Association - Dieppe

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