JACK BRUCE BURNET Flight Lieutenant 415288 RNZAF

[salvo]

Greetings from Sicily.

Do you have information about: JACK BRUCE BURNET Flight Lieutenant 415288, 683 Squadron Reconnaissance from Luqa-Malta.

Thanks in advance

Salvo

[errolmartyn]

From VolumeTwo of my trilogy For Your Tomorrow - A record of New Zealanders who have died while serving with the RNZAF and Allied Air Services since 1915:

Sat 2 Oct 1943
MEDITERRANEAN AIR COMMAND
Mail run from Gioia delle Colle, Italy, to base
683 Squadron, RAF (Luqa, Malta - 248 Wing, Malta)
Spitfire PR.XI EN670 - took off at 1000, and on completion of a photographic reconnaissance over Larissa in
Northern Greece landed at Brindisi to refuel. After departing Brindisi with sufficient fuel for 90 minutes flying,
encountered a violent and unexpected thunderstorm which reduced visibility to a few yards. Although heard on
r/t near Sicily and plotted by Malta radar, nothing further was heard of EN670, or its pilot, who is commemorated
on the Malta Memorial.
Pilot: NZ415288 Flt Lt Jack Bruce BURNET, RNZAF - Age 27. 550hrs. 69 ops.

And from Volume Three:

BURNET, Flight Lieutenant Jack Bruce.
NZ415288; b Wgtn 25 May 16; Wgtn Coll & Victoria Univ Coll; clerk
- Public Trust Office, Wgtn. RNZAF Levin/ITW as Airman Pilot u/t 28
Sep 41, 3EFTS 9 Nov 41, 2SFTS 20 Dec 41, Pilots Badge [wef 7.2.42]
& Comm 28 Mar 42, att RAF & emb for UK 11 Apr 42, 3PRC 23 May 42,
7(P)AFU 23 Jun 42, 3SGR Aug 42, 5(P)AFU Oct 42, 8(C)OTU (Spitfire)
10 Nov 42, 543 Sqn (Spitfire - 7 ops?) 10 Feb 43, flew a Spitfire to Malta
via Gibraltar & N Africa 22-24 May 43, 683 Sqn (Spitfire - 61 ops) 25 May
43, kao 2 Oct 43. Malta Memorial - Panel 12, Column 1. Son of William
Lewis & Lily Burnet (née Wilson), Wgtn; h of Mable May Burnet (née
Jackson) & f of 1s, Wgtn. [OHT3 & phot. TWN 12.12.43].

Errol

[salvo]

Thanks errolmartyn, for you precius information!

Do you have pictures about him, or other picture the Spitfire PR?

Thanks in advance.

My congratulation for your courtesy.

Salvo

[Dave Homewood]

From HERE

[errolmartyn]

Sept 14, 2017 19:23:44 GMT 12 salvo said:

Thanks errolmartyn, for you precius information!

Do you have pictures about him, or other picture the Spitfire PR?

Thanks in advance.

My congratulation for your courtesy.

Salvo

Salvo,

Sorry but I have no pictures. You could try the Air Force Museum of New Zealand for these - [e-mail]

Errol