1940 Downed RAF Aircraft Photos on German ebay.

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"Block 3/G within an order batch of 40 aircraft (V6665 - V6704). Third production batch of 1,700 aircraft built by Gloster Aircraft Co, to contract 85730/40/23a. Powered by Rolls-Royce Merlin III or Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines, driving Rotol or De-Havilland three blade variable pitch propellers. Aircraft delivered between July 1940 and August 1941, average rate of production 4-5 aircraft per day."

http://www.the-battle-of-britain.co....Mc-pilots.html
"P/O D.B.H.McHardy of No 229 Squadron became a P.O.W. on the 26th of October 1940 when his Hurricane I (V6704) was shot down off the French coast by a Bf 109 after attacking a He 59 at 11:30hrs."

"He had brought his favourite Hurricane V6704 to how-to-play-the-piano-books a forced landing in a field three miles north of Boulogne. In hospital with a broken jaw, McHardy was courteously visited by his assailant, Hauptman Phillippe, who went on to a distinguished flying career. Simpson was never found. Hardy McHardy like so many others in 1940 had not received much gunnery training."


http://www.the-battle-of-britain.co....26-October.htm
R.A.F. Losses for Saturday the 26th of October 1940

No 229 Squadron Hurricane I
V6704
D.B.H.McHardy