westland whirlwind personal codes AHD

[brewerjerry]

Hi

   so as not to thread drift the rumourmonger 1:32 thread

 

  a stab in the dark 

 

   many years ago i saw a book with a profile of a whirlwind with the codes,

( presumably donaldson ? )

   

    anyone recall a book the profile may have been in ? 

 

vaguely think it was a book about all the raf squadron histories and codes, maybe from 1960's ?  

   

 

P.S.

      suddenly remembered i have a copy of a profile on my ext hard drive it was captioned as AHD P7001 mar '42 

  

   

 

   cheers

       jerry 

Edited November 20, 2020 by brewerjerry

[303sqn]

1- P7001 (P.O. Masson, 10/09/41) went down near Lestre.  That's in the records/books.  What was new to me is the fact that 3 photos were found (I haven't seen them) about 25 years ago about P7001.  It appears that PO Masson managed to control the aircraft and crash landed at the edge of the surf. The aircraft didn't explode nor caught fire. It broke in segments (no further details about that, unfortunately).  It also appears that PO Masson died setting the aircraft on the beach - or expired shortly thereafter.  In any event, P7001 rested at the edge of the sea and was under water at high tide later on that day.  The Germans brought in their heavy equipment and managed to remove the remains of P7001 from the beach/sea and transported it away. Specifics and timeline about the salvage operation remains TBD. Where the wreck was taken to also remains a (very interesting) mystery.

 

From the Whirlwind project site.

[brewerjerry]

Hi

    Thanks

    so most likely a wrong serial on the profile AHD 

  ( i should have checked the serial before posting ) 

 

  donaldson was a w/cdr in jan/mar 42  , not sure when he achieved the rank, so the profile could be partly real 

 

 cheers

    jerry

     

Edited November 21, 2020 by brewerjerry