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Sandy Gunn (Alastair Donald Mackintosh Gunn) was born on 27 September, 1919 in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, is an A british world war II pilots. Discover Sandy Gunn's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 24 years old?

Popular As Alastair Donald Mackintosh Gunn
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Age 24 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 27 September 1919
Birthday 27 September
Birthplace Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland
Date of death 6 April, 1944
Died Place between Görlitz and Breslau
Nationality Scotland

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1919

Alastair Donald Mackintosh "Sandy" Gunn (27 September 1919 – 6 April 1944), was a Scottish Supermarine Spitfire photo reconnaissance pilot who was taken prisoner during the Second World War.

1940

Gunn enlisted in the Royal Air Force on 22 February 1940 and commenced active service on 22 June 1940 as an aircrew candidate (airman 2nd class).

He began his flying training at RAF Ansty near Coventry, and later at Blackpool.

1941

On 18 January 1941 he received his pilot's brevet and promotion to sergeant.

He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer on 25 January 1941.

Gunn subsequently joined No. 48 Squadron RAF of RAF Coastal Command flying Avro Anson aircraft on photo reconnaissance missions.

A reliable record flying with the squadron led to Gunn being posted to RAF Benson to fly stripped-down high-altitude conversion Supermarine Spitfires with the RAF in September 1941.

Wick was a noted photo reconnaissance aerodrome: for example, in May 1941, a Spitfire from Wick found and photographed the German battleship Bismarck in a Norwegian fjord.

Bismarck was later sunk by the Royal Navy, but the German battleship Tirpitz remained a threat in Norway.

1942

In January 1942 he was posted to RAF Wick in the north of Scotland.

Gunn was promoted to Flying Officer on 25 January 1942, and flew many long-range missions over German naval units on the Norwegian coast and in the North Atlantic, often in terrible weather conditions.

On one occasion he crashed in the North Atlantic after his aircraft ran out of fuel.

At 0807 hours on the morning of 5 March 1942, Gunn took off from RAF Wick in a Supermarine Spitfire on a photo reconnaissance mission of the German naval anchorages on the Norwegian coastline near Trondheim, Norway.

He was shot down with burn on hands and face by two Messerschmitt Bf 109s from Jagdgruppe Losigkeit, flown by Leutnants Heinz Knoke and Dieter Gerhard.

Gunn bailed out before his Spitfire crashed near Langurda, Surnadal, Norway, and was made a prisoner of war.

Gunn was initially suspected by the Germans of having flown from a covert RAF base somewhere in northern Norway.

He was questioned over a period of three weeks before being processed into the prison camp system.

Gunn was sent to Stalag Luft III in the German province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), where he became a regular member of the tunnelling team.

1943

In captivity, Gunn was promoted to Flight Lieutenant (24 January 1943).

1944

Gunn took part in the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, and was one of the men re-captured and subsequently executed by the Gestapo.

Gunn was born at home in Auchterarder, Perthshire, the son of surgeon James Turner Gunn, MB, ChB, FRCS and Adelaide Lucy Frances [nee Macdonald] Gunn.

He was reportedly a fine athlete at school, being a member of 1st XV rugby & 1st XI cricket team.

He attended Cargilfield Preparatory School and Fettes College, both in Edinburgh, and was a school prefect. After leaving school, Gunn became an engineering apprentice at the Govan, Glasgow shipyard of Harland and Wolff.

After a year he gained entry to Pembroke College, Cambridge to study mechanical sciences hoping for a career as a diesel engineer.

Gunn was one of 76 men who escaped the prison camp on the night of 24–25 March 1944 in the now famous "Great Escape".

The alarms sounded upon the discovery of the escape attempt when he had been outside the wire for less than an hour.

Gunn was quickly arrested on the road to Görlitz (to the south of the camp), and arrived at the collection point for recaptured officers at Görlitz prison.

The prisoners were interrogated harshly.

Mike Casey and Gunn were both told that they would lose their heads.

At Görlitz prison on the morning of 6 April 1944, Tony Bethell heard a truck arrive and saw three Germans in uniform call out the names of Denys Street, Neville McGarr, Jack Grisman, Harold Milford, John F Williams and Sandy Gunn.

Gunn was one of 50 escapees executed by the Gestapo.

He was cremated at Breslau.

Originally his remains were buried at Sagan, although his ashes are now interred in the Old Garrison Cemetery, Poznan.

Gunn's name was amongst those in the list of the murdered prisoners, which was published in the press in the UK and Commonwealth countries when news broke on or about 20 May 1944.

Post-war investigations saw a number of those guilty of the murders tracked down, arrested, and tried for their crimes; some were executed.

2018

In 2018, wreckage of Gunn's aircraft was found in a peat bog near the Norwegian village of Surnadal and brought back to the UK.