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Archive Report: Allied Forces

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31st July 1942 133 'Eagle' Squadron Spitfire Vb BL938 Fl/LT. King

Operation: Circus 201

Date: 31st July 1942 (Friday)

Unit: No. 133 'Eagle' Squadron motto: 'Let us to the battle')

Type: Spitfire Vb

Serial: BL938

Code: MD-?

Base: RAF Biggin Hill, Kent

Location: English Channel

Pilot: Fl/LT. Coburn Clark King 100521 RAFVR Age 31. Missing - believed killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

Escorting bombers with the target of Le Crotoy.

Massive losses when they were attacked by FW 190's of Jagdgeschwader 26.

332 Squadron Spitfire VB BL386 Flown by Sgt. Sven Nygaard RNoAF - shot down and killed.

332 Squadron Spitfire VB EP177 Flown by Maj. Wilhelm Mohr RNoAF - safe with injuries after belly landing.

332 Squadron Spitfire VB AB906 Flown by 2/Lt. Hans Kjell Hansen RNoAF - PoW injured, later repatriated.

332 Squadron Spitfire VB BL960 Flown by Lt. Erik Hagan 1159 RNoAF - PoW after initial evasion.

332 Squadron Spitfire VB AR379 Flown by Sgt. Olaf Tanburg RNoAF - shot down and killed.

332 Squadron Spitfire VB AD449 Sgt. Thor Arbo Waerner RNoAF - safe, aircraft written off.

317 Squadron Spitfire VB BL627 Flown by F/O. Tadeusz Zdzisław Kratke PAF - Shot down, wounded rescued by HSL.

313 Squadron Spitfire VB BM452 Flown by Fl/Lt. Jaroslav Muzika 82562 RAFVR - engine trouble, baled out rescued by HSL. Survived the war, awarded the AFC, died 27th January 2001.

121 Squadron Spitfire VB BL234 Flown by Sq/Ldr. Hugh Charles Kennard DFC 40396 RAFVR - crash landed, safe, aircraft written off.

121 Squadron Spitfire VB AA732 Flown by P/O. Norman Dudley Young 116163 RAFR - shot down and killed.

Above: Fl/Lt. Coburn Clark King (courtesy Bob McGuire)

133 Squadron losses:

Spitfire BL982 Flown by P/O. Carter Woodruff Harp J/15389 RCAF - shot down and killed.

Spitfire BM646 Flown by Fl/Sgt. Grant Eugene Eichar J/15650 RCAF - shot down and killed.

Spitfire ? Flown by P/O. Edwin Dale Taylor RAFVR - Shot down, wounded, safe.

Spitfire BL938 Flown by Fl/Lt. Coburn Clark King 100521 RAFVR - shot down and killed.

Burial details:

Fl/LT. Coburn Clark King. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 65. Born on the 28th April 1909. Son of Alonzo Wilmer King (deceased 25th May 1930, age 80) and Julia Ellen King (deceased 22nd September 1941 age 72) (née Thuma) and husband of Pauline King of Oregon, Missouri, USA

Researched and dedicated to the relatives of these pilots with thanks to Bob McGuire for photographs and information, American Air Museum, other sources as quoted below:

KTY 22-02-2021

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Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and MWO François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Stan D. Bishop, John A. Hey MBE, Gerrie Franken and Maco Cillessen - Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces, Vols 1-6, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiton - Nachtjagd Combat Archives, Vols 1-13. Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
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