P-400 Airacobra (BX434) lands in Lisbon Airport
Date Location Force Aircraft From-To Crew 15-01-1943 Portela Airport – Lisbon USAAF 350FG Bell P-400 Aircobra BX434 Land’s End (GB) → Port Lyautey (Marocco) Lt. Robert Weismueller USA
Lost Airacobra P-400 (BX412) landed in Lisbon
Date Location Force Aircraft From-To Crew 15-01-1943 Portela Airport – Lisbon USAAF 350FG Bell P-400 Airacobra BX412 Land’s End (GB) → Port Lyautey (Marocco) Lt. Clifford Merhof USA
American Airacobra (AP310) landed in Lisbon
Date Location Force Aircraft From-To Crew 15-01-1943 Portela Airport – Lisbon USAAF 350FG Bell P-400 Airacobra AP310 Land’s End (GB) → Port Lyautey (Marocco) Lt Horace W. Potter USA
Airacobra (AP273) also landed in Lisbon
Date 15-01-1943 Location Portela Airport – Lisbon Force USAAF 350FG Aircraft … Read more
Lisbon saw the landing of another Airacobra (BX369)
Date Location Force Aircraft From-To Crew 15-01-1943 Portela Airport – Lisbon USAAF 350FG Bell P-400 Airacobra BX369 Land’s End (GB) → Port Lyautey (Marrocos) 2Lt. Paul H. Hazelrigg USA
Airacobra (BX187) landed in Aljezur
Date Location Force Aircraft From-To Crew 03-06-1943 Aljezur – Pego das Aguas USAAF Bell Airacobra P400 BX187 Portreath (GB) → Port Lyautey (Marroco) Lt Richard Savoy USA
Condor (W.Nr. 0178) is shot down in Aljezur
Date Location Force Aircraft From-To Crew 09-07-1943 Aljezur LUFTWAFFE 9/KG40 Focke-Wulf FW200 C4 W.Nr.0178 Bordeus-Cognac Merignac → Bordeus-Cognac Merignac Feldw Karl-Gunther Nicolaus Germany † Uffz Hans Weigert … Read more
Horsa (DP392) ditched in the sea of Oporto
Date Location Force Aircraft From-To Crew 16-08-1943 Mar (In the sea near Portugal) Royal Army Glider Pilot Regiment Horsa Glider (Planador) DP329 Portreath (GB) → Sale (North Africa) Sgt Willie Desmond Jackson GB Sgt Arnold … Read more
Glider Horsa (LH122) landed in Vieira de Leiria beach
The Horsa LH122 in the Vieira de Leiria beach (Photo: Uknwon author /C. de Modelismo da Região de Leiria) Another image from Horsa LH122 being pushed away from the beach (Photo: Unknown author/C. de Modelismo da Região de Leiria) The … Read more
Blenheim (BB166) ditched near Setúbal
Date Location Force Aircraft From-To Crew 24-01-1943 Comporta – Setúbal (Sea) RAF OADU Bristol Blenheim V BB166 Portreath (GB) → Gibraltar F/O Thomas Andrew Milne GB F/Sgt Reuber Henry Walton … Read more