Project Get Out and WALK

BAIL-OUT - BALE-OUT


PLEASE NOTE THIS PAGE IS  ADDED TO ON AN IRREGULAR BASIS

This section of the website is dedicated to those aircrew who did not use ejection seats to egress from their aircraft. They used conventional bail outs using parachute and ripcord. Most were successful, for some the outcome was fatal. The performance dynamics of their aircraft made successful escape without mechanical assistance less certain. Assisted escape systems were needed to give the maximum  chance of survival.

 
         

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Bail-Outs for
1942

Ejections for 1942

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MORE PARACHUTE DESCENTS BEING ADDED WEEKLY - AND PHOTOS AS AND WHEN FOUND

1942
Date crew who bailed out position notes status Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial

based

 mission cause crashed
30th/31st May 1942
P/0 Leslie  Thomas Manser
RAFVR		 pilot Remained in aircraft to allow crew to bale-out

Awarded posthumous Victoria Cross

KIA
RAF Bomber Command		 Manchester I L7301
ZN-D		 106 Sqn T/o 2301 Skellingthorpe borrowed by 50 Squadron

1000 Bomber Raid 

Hit by flak over Koln and very severely damaged Crashed 0200 into a dyke at Bree (Limburg), 21 km NNE of Genk, Belgium
P/0 R J Barnes co-pilot   POW
Sgt L H Baveystock     evaded capture
P/0 R M Horsley     evaded capture
Sgt S E King     evaded capture
Sgt A McF Mills     evaded capture
Sgt B W Naylor     evaded capture
3rd September 1942
Staffelkapitän Karl-Heinz "Benjamin" Weber		 pilot Landing safely, but wounded by a German sentry OK
Luftwaffe		 Bf 109 F-2

“White 0”

 WkNr. 8240 JG 51   combat with Russian twin-engined bombers Eastern Front, Russia
4th September 1942
Oberleutnant Emil Bitsch		 pilot slight injuries OK
Luftwaffe		 Bf 109 F-4 W.Nr. 13 325 8./JG 3   shot down by Flak Eastern Front near Wertjatschi am Don northwest of Stalingrad, Russia
25th October 1942
Leutnant Walter “Graf Punski” Krupinski		      
Luftwaffe		 Bf 109 ??   6./JG 52   shot down in aerial combat Eastern Front, near Leningrad, Russia