PL-E was last seen with starboard engine on fire.

PL-E hit the ground just a few hundred meters away from the crash site of a Junker 52 at Langevatnet.

Feda. Vest-Agder. July 2000 ©kjell sørensen/morten moe
Letter P still visible
The tail wing section of PL-E
Photos: Morten Moe 1998
This was the last strike by the Dallachy Strike Wing in Norway during the war. D/S Palmyra and two more ships were heavily damaged in this raid at Feda fjord. Three Beaufighters & crew were lost. One of them hit a power line, the other two were shot down by German fighters.
© erling skjold
D/S Palmyra
U/144
Photo kjell sørensen 2000
The attack in Breivika. Photographed from U/455. F/O Walliis and F/S Waldock

Bristol Beaufighter Sagevatnet Feda

144.Squadron RAF Code PL-E NV182 26.4 1945

At 14.30 a force of 28 Beaufighters from Dallachy Strike Wing took off to attack shipping in Fedafjord. They were escorted by 12 Mustangs of 19 Sqdn, 2 "outriders"of 289 Sqdn and 2 Warwicks(rescue planes) of 279 Sqdn. One Beaufighter abortet the mission due to technical problems, the rest of the force approached the Norwegian coast at 16.11 They were soon attacked by the Luftwaffe and heavy flak. F/O William John Edwards (Australia) and Warrant Officer Keith Lambert Hamilton (Australia) in Beaufighter N/455 were shot down and killed. Beaufighter U/144 F/O Eric Chadwick and F/O Denis Arthur Forrester, crashed into the sea near by the ships they were attacking. Flying Officer John Roger Eyton-Morgan and Flight Sergeant James Thomson Knox were killed at this spot when PL-E crashed. They are both buried at Feda Churchyard. The other four are commemorated at Runnymede Memorial.