Robert Cooper Mills Douglas

Robert Cooper Mills Douglas Knud Riis 09 NOV 2011

Airman: a014116.htm Surname: Douglas Init: RCM Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 77

P_link: p164.htm Plane: HAL HR714 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea off Mandø

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b300443 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 10. 19

Den 21. april 1943 kl. 03.21 styrtede HAL HR714 ned i tidevandsområdet ved Mandø omkring her.
(Kilde: Lost Bombers og AOD) Det var på hjemturen fra Stettin her. Alle ombord omkom.

"Under en stor overflyvning af Danmark natten til den 21. april 1943, hvor bombemålene var Stettin og Rostock, nedstyrtede mindst 17 fly på dansk område. Fra 8 af disse fly blev i alt 40 dræbte flyvere begravet i Esbjerg. De 37 begravedes om formiddagen den 30. april 1943 ved den største jordfæstelse
af allierede flyvere under besættelsen. Ved højtideligheden medvirkede en tysk feltpræst, og der blev nedlagt kranse fra både den tyske værnemagt og Esbjerg byråd." (FAF)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Robert Cooper Mills Douglas var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere. Se Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.

On 21 April 1943 at 03.21 hours HAL HR714 crashed into the tidal area of Mandø about here.
(Source: Lost Bombers and AOD) It was on the return flight from Stettin here. All on board perished.

"At least 17 planes crashed in Danish territory during a great overflight of Denmark on the night before
21 April 1943 targeting Stettin and Rostock. From 8 of these planes 40 perished airmen were buried
in Esbjerg. 37 of them were buried before noon on 30 April 1943 at the greatest interment of allied
airmen during the occupation. A German army chaplain took part in the ceremony, and wreaths were
laid from the German Wehrmacht and the Town Council of Esbjerg." (FAF)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Robert Cooper Mills Douglas was from the United Kingdom.
(Source: CWGC)

See Bomber Command No. 77 Squadron * 77 Squadron Association * RAF - Handley Page Halifax.
This Halifax took off from RAF Elvington.
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has this. See Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.