IWM caption : Low-level oblique aerial photograph taken during a major daylight raid on the docks at Rotterdam, Holland, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Blenheim" class="extiw" title="en:Bristol Blenheim">Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._2_Group_RAF" class="extiw" title="en:No. 2 Group RAF">No. 2 Group</a>. The Commanding Officer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._18_Squadron_RAF" class="extiw" title="en:No. 18 Squadron RAF">No. 18 Squadron RAF</a>, Wing Commander T Partridge, in Bristol Blenheim Mark IV, V6267 'WV-M', leads the second wave of the attack in at low level toward the docks, seen on the skyline. Moments later he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and killed with his crew, Sergeant G Dvorjetz and Flight Sergeant J Smith.
No. 2 Group RAF
1941-07-16
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