Spitfire in the North Sea off Scarborough.

On the 14th of August 1941 Spitfire P8310 is listed as missing over the North Sea.

In Scarborough ARP and Police records I have been lucky enough to have seen, a listing is made of an aircraft bursting into flames and crashing into the sea 5 miles NNE of the town, the lifeboat was sent out but nothing was found. On the 15th August fishermen found quantities of wreckage and oil as well as salaving personal effects of an airmen. Of these, some gloves had a London makers label inside, it was therefore assumed that the aircraft know to have gone down on the 14th was this aircraft and the Allied pilot was killed (missing) in this incident. Also on the 15th a respirator was found washed up. It was thought that an aircraft that had flown over the Olivers Mount area towards the sea was the same aircraft that had crashed. A report that it may have been shot down by an ME110 need yet to be researched in Luftwaffe Claims info.

Pilot - Unknown, missing.