Spitfire EE720 Mk Vc - Reconnaissance - 1943-06-12 to 1943-06-12
Squadron: 412 (F) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1943-06-12
Completion Date: 1943-06-12
Mission: Reconnaissance
Operation: unspecified
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Target Specific:
Base: RAF Perranporth
Take Off Time:
Squadron Code: VZ-
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Crash City: English Channel
Crash Specifics: wenty miles northwest of the island lle de Batz, France
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
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Enemy Claim: unspecified
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

412 Falcon Squadron (Promtus ad vindictum) RAF Perranporth. Flying Officer H E Holbrook (CAF) was engaged in a shipping reconnaissance flight in Spitfire Vc aircraft EE 720 when he was shot down by an enemy FW-190 fighter aircraft. He was too low to bail out and was missing, presumed killed in action when the Spitfire crashed in the sea about twenty miles northwest of the island lle de Batz, France, in the English Channel

Flying Officer Holbrook has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey, England

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