Squadron: 238 (F) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1943-05-11
Completion Date: 1943-05-11
Mission: Combat
Operation: unspecified
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Base: El Gamil, Egypt
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Crash City: Egypt
Crash Specifics: seventeen miles east of Rosseta
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Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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238 Squadron (Ad Finem) Landing Ground 201, El Gamil, Egypt. Flying Officer J E Rylands (RCAF) attempted to belly land his Hurricane aircraft BP 155 seventeen miles east of Rosseta, Egypt. The Hurricane overturned and Flying Officer Rylands was killed in action
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