From the Feb. 15, 2021 Irish Central "Discovery of Irish airman lost at sea during the Second World War" by Shane O'Brien.
When Irish fighter pilot Edmund Seymour Burke's plane went down near Norway, his family had no idea what happened to him. They knew that he had died, but nothing beyond that.
His plane was based on the aircraft carrier HMS Furious and he helped protect ships bound for Russia from German attack. The Germans had also established naval bases in several nearby Norwegian fjords which made any effort to rescue Burke and his leading airman James Beardsley too dangerous when their plane went down on July 30, 1941.
The two men were seen getting into a dingy, but the Furious had to leave because of the presence of German planes and submarines in the vicinity.
That was the last anyone knew of them.
--GreGen
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