Spitfire BM405 Mk Vb - Sweep Dieppe France - 1942-08-19 to 1942-08-19
Squadron: 121 (F) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1942-08-19
Completion Date: 1942-08-19
Mission: Sweep
Operation: Operation Jubilee
Target City: Dieppe France
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Base: RAF Southend
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Crash City: France
Crash Specifics: near Pas-de-Calais
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
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Enemy Claim: unspecified
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121 Eagle Squadron, RAF Southend. Flight Lieutenant Jackson Barrett Mahon DFC (RAFVR)(USA), flying Spitfire Vb aircraft BM 405 AV-J on a fighter sweep over the beaches of Dieppe, France during Operation Jubilee was engaged in aerial combat with multiple German Focke-Wulf 190 aircraft when he was shot down, baling from his aircraft into the English Channel. Flight Lieutenant Mahon's Spitfire crashed near Pas-de-Calais.

Inflating his dingy, Mahon paddled to shore at Dieppe and was captured to become on of the first American Prisoners of War. He was liberated from Stalag Luft 3 by advancing American Forces

The Greatest Air Battle, Dieppe, 19th August 1942 by Norman Franks, pages 88, 231

The Eagle Squadrons, Yanks in the RAF 1940-1942 by Vern Haugland, pages,18,45,96,100,115,136,140,146,153-156, 183-4

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