Anthony Golding Bird    Photo: Knud Riis  Updated:  29 DEC 2017
                                                                            
Airman: a014232.htm Surname: Bird Init: A G Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 19

P_link: p321.htm Plane: MUS FX999 Operation: Day ranger Crash_site: Near Fonnesbæk

Crash_d: d210544 Buried_d: b230544 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A12, 25

"Den 21. maj 1944 ledsagede F/Lt Bird i sin Mustang jager et Mosquito fly under et togt rettet mod et
mål syd for Aalborg.
Under luftkamp øst for Herning beskød F/Lt Bird og piloten på en tysk ME 109-jager hinanden samtidig,
hvilket resulterede i at Mustang flyet eksploderede i luften. Piloten blev dræbt. Nedstyrtningen skete ved Fonnesbæk syd for Ikast. F/Lt Bird blev begravet den 23. maj 1944." (FAF)

Styrtet var her nær Fonnesbækgaard. (Kilde: Jens Ove Steensberg)
Se også beretning fra Jens Ove Steensberg.

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Anthony Golding Bird, 23 år, var søn af Frederick Golding Bird og Mary C. Bird,
Marple Bridge, Cheshire, United Kingdom. Hæderstegn: DFC and Bar - Distinguished Flying Cross med
Bjælke. (Kilde: CWGC) 1 flyver.

"On 21 May 1944 F/Lt Bird in his Mustang escorted a Mosquito on a raid on a target south of Aalborg.
During a dogfight east of Herning F/Lt Bird and the pilot of a German ME 109-fighter shot at each other simultaneously with the result that the Mustang exploded in the air. The pilot was killed. The crash was at Fonnesbæk south of Ikast. F/Lt Bird was buried on 23 May 1944." (FAF)

The crash was here near Fonnesbækgaard. (Source: Jens Ove Steensberg)
See also account from Jens Ove Steensberg.

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Anthony Golding Bird, 23, was the son of Frederick Golding Bird and Mary C. Bird,
of Marple Bridge, Cheshire, United Kingdom. Awards: DFC and Bar. (Source: CWGC)
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them

See a Mustang and No. 19 Squadron RAF. Also P-51 Mustang - Photos. 1 airman.