Spitfire BS157 Mk IX - Sweep Dieppe France - 1942-08-19 to 1942-08-19
Squadron: 401 (F) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1942-08-19
Completion Date: 1942-08-19
Mission: Sweep
Operation: Operation Jubilee
Target City: Dieppe France
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Lympne
Take Off Time: 13:25:00
Squadron Code: YO-
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: English Channel
Crash Specifics: off the coast of Dieppe, France
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: unspecified
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401 Ram Squadron (Mors celerrima hostibus) RAF Lympne. Flight Sergeant Morton Haist Buckley (RCAF) was missing, presumed killed in action when his Spitfire IX aircraft BS 157 YO- was shot down on his second sortie of the day, when he and 401 Squadron pilot Flight Lieutenant James Whitham DFC (RCAF) were attacked by multiple German Focke-Wulf 190 aircraft. Flight Lieutenant Whitham shot down one of the attackers but he was later shot down and killed in action nine days later escorting bombers over Amiens, France

Flight Sergeant Buckley has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial

The Greatest Air Battle, Dieppe, 19th August 1942 by Norman Franks, pages 140,235

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