Frank Reginald Carey
Air victories
Carey was credited with 23 enemy aircraft shot down, six shared destroyed, four unconfirmed destroyed, seven probable, two destroyed on the ground and ten damaged.

Frank Reginald Carey

Section Title: Air victories
Table Section Text: Carey was credited with 23 enemy aircraft shot down, six shared destroyed, four unconfirmed destroyed, seven probable, two destroyed on the ground and ten damaged.

Chronicle of aerial victories

Claim No.	Date	Time	Location	Enemy aircraft	Notes

30 January 1940	12:30	Heinkel He 111 shared destroyed	Shared with Hull. The machine was a 4./KG 26 He 111H-1 code 1H+KM.

3 February 1940	11:20	He 111 shared destroyed	Shared with Ottewill. The He 111H-2, code 1H+GK, from 2./KG 26 was lost over the sea.

28 March 1940	12:30	He 111 shared destroyed	Shared with Hull and Gough. Pilot Oberleutnant Horst Gollmann was killed with his crew.

1–3	10 May 1940	19:35 19:40 19:40 19:42 19:43 21:10	Lille Lille Merville Merville Merville Merville	He 111 destroyed He 111 destroyed He 111 destroyed He 111 damaged He 111 damaged He 111 destroyed	Claimed over Lille. In the first battle Carey's victory was over an 8./KG 54 He 111 flown by Unteroffizier Walter Zenner.

4	11 May 1940	17:30	Lille	He 111 destroyed	Claimed over Douai. Oberleutnant Wilhelm Surbog from Stab./KG 54, was captured along with two crewman. Two crewman were killed.

5	12 May 1940	South of Brussels	He 111 destroyed He 111 probably destroyed	Claimed south of Brussels. Possibly misidentified.

6–10	13 May 1940	08:00 08:10 08:10 08:10 08:20 09:10 11:30	Louvain Louvain Louvain Louvain unknown Louvain SE of Brussels Namur	Ju 87 destroyed Ju 87 destroyed Ju 87 probably destroyed Ju 87 probably destroyed He 111 destroyed One Do 17 destroyed One Hs 123 destroyed One He 111 shared destroyed	Claimed two Ju 87s from StG 2 near Louvain. Claimed a He 111 in the same combat.

11	14 May 1940	04:50	Wavre	Do 17 destroyed	Claimed near Wavre. Carey's opponent crashed near the city.

9 July 1940	11:45	Isle of Wight	Bf 110 damaged	Claimed off Folkestone. 43 Squadron clashed with III./ZG 26.

12	19 July 1940	17:15	Selsey Bill	Bf 109 destroyed Bf 109 damaged Bf 109 damaged	Claimed off Selsey Bill. One source records no loss for JG 27 this day and states only one Bf 109 (from III./Jagdgeschwader 51) was lost in action with No.

8 August 1940	16:30	Isle of Wight	Bf 109 damaged	Engaged LG 1 and JG 27 near the Isle of Wight. 43 Squadron's Pilot Officer Hallows was credited with one Bf 109 and one damaged (pilot rescued) and Dalton-Morgan was credited with another whose pilot was wounded.

12 August 1940	12:15	Channel	Ju 88 probably destroyed	Claimed near Portsmouth and the Channel. Carey's victory was probably over the Ju 88A-1, flown by Oberleutnant Noelker who was killed with his crew at 12:15.

13	13 August 1940	07:00	Uncertain Littlehampton Petworth Petworth	One Ju 88 destroyed One Ju 88 probably destroyed Two Ju 88s damaged	Claimed near Littlehampton and Petworth at 07:00. Ju 88s from LG 1 and KG 54 were in action on 13 August.

15 August 1940	18:00	Unknown	Ju 88 shared destroyed	In the air battle eight Ju 88s from LG 1 were shot down. Five Ju 88s were credited to other squadrons.

14–15	16 August 1940	~13:00	Selsey Bill	Two Ju 87s destroyed Two Ju 87s probably destroyed	Five Ju 87s from I./StG 2 were lost to 43 Squadron with three damaged. A further two Ju 87s were lost to 43 Squadron from III./StG 2.

16	18 August 1940	14:30	Thorney Island	Ju 87 destroyed	On this day 16 Ju 87s from I. and II./StG 77 were lost and six damaged.

20 January 1941	Unknown	North Sea	Ju 88 damaged

17	29 January 1942	Unknown	Mingaladon	Ki-27 destroyed Ki-27 damaged	Sergeant Major (Sōchō or 曹長) Nagashima of the 77th Sentai, killed.

18	23 February 1942	Ki-51 destroyed	Captain Tadao Ohhira, of the 70th Independent Chutai, was killed.

19	24 February 1942	unknown	unknown	Ki-27 destroyed Unidentified transport destroyed	unknown

20–22	26 February 1942	unkown	unknown	Three Ki-27s destroyed	unknown

23	25 October 1942	unknown	unknown	Ki-43 destroyed	unknown

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