- Contributed by
- actiondesksheffield
- People in story:
- Jack Burgin
- Location of story:
- El Khanka
- Background to story:
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:
- A6670505
- Contributed on:
- 04 November 2005
Hudson crashes into petrol dump in the act of taking off on a detachment prior to El Alemein. Photographs of the crash and the burial of the victims. Hudson crashes whilst taking off from El Khanka to go on detachment a few days previous to the start of the ‘Big Push’ of 1942. It carried a crew of eight five were killed in the kite three got out, two of them died of burns later so there was only one survivor (Paulger) a terrible tragedy.
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Roger Marsh of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Jack Burgin and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
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