Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 22, 2012 22:35:00 GMT 12
Does anyong have any detail please on the Hawker Hurricanes that were flown by Ian Duke Culpan DFM (NZ413937) in Burma, with No. 34 Squadron RAF?
He was a bomber pilot who flew Wellingtons and Blenheims in Burma and then converted to become a fighter-bomber pilot on Hurricanes.
It's be interested to know an serial numbers, markings, nicknames, colours etc of his Hurricanes and particularly of one that he crashed into a rice paddy field on the 23rd of May 1944 in a monsoon storm trying to find his adjacent airstrip. (The same storm killed Major General Wingate of the Chindits when the B-25 he was passenger in hit a hill).
Do any photos exist out there of this crash, or of Ian Culpan's Hurricane/s?
He was a bomber pilot who flew Wellingtons and Blenheims in Burma and then converted to become a fighter-bomber pilot on Hurricanes.
It's be interested to know an serial numbers, markings, nicknames, colours etc of his Hurricanes and particularly of one that he crashed into a rice paddy field on the 23rd of May 1944 in a monsoon storm trying to find his adjacent airstrip. (The same storm killed Major General Wingate of the Chindits when the B-25 he was passenger in hit a hill).
Do any photos exist out there of this crash, or of Ian Culpan's Hurricane/s?
