The first true British air combat victories Sept 26 and 27 1939

The first true British air combat victory
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26th September 1939
The first Luftwaffe aircraft shot down by a British aircraft. A Dornier Do18D flying boat (W.Nr. 0731) of 2./Küstenfliegergruppe 506 was forced down North of the Great Fisher Bank by Lieutenant B. S. McEwen and his air gunner Acting Petty Officer B. M. Seymour in their Blackburn Skua of No. 803 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, operating from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. Lt. zur See Ernst Körner and his crew were rescued by the destroyer HMS Somali, which then sank the aircraft K6+YK with gunfire. Even if the Do 18D is said to have belonged to Küstenfliegergruppe 506 its identification code was that of Küstenfliegergruppe 406, namely K6+.

 

The first RAF kill
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27th September 1939
The victim was a Messerschmitt Bf109D-1 from JGr. 152. It was shot down by return fire during an attack on three No. 103 Squadron Battles by four Bf109D-1s from JGr.152 West of Hornbach and crashed near Bockweiler, at 1230 hrs. Gefreiter or Obergefreiter (sources differ on his rank) Josef Scherm was killed, the aircraft was a write off. The victor was Leading Aircraftman (LAC) John Ernest Summers in Fiying Officer A.L. Vipan’s K9271. Bf 109s had attacked just as the Battles had completed their mission to take oblique photographs along the Siegfried Line and turned for home. LAC Summers had held his fire until the Bf 109 attacking his Battle had closed right in before giving it a burst from his Vickers GO gun, whereupon the 109 had fallen into a wood. The observer of his plane, Sergeant J.H. Vickers, was badly wounded and died of his wound on 7 Oct. The pilot F/O Vipan had to make a forced landing onto a field with failing engine. However K9271 wasn’t badly damaged and the other two Battles returned unscathed. LAC Summers was later awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal.

 

Here is a picture of the Do-18. Note the code YK but I'm not sure it says K6 . However the date is the same. To be noted this "kill" was widely used by the press. Nothing too impressive to shoot down this obsolete, slow and weak flyboat though: the Me-109 "kill from the next day was a much more difficult score




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