James Mitchell Henderson    Photo: Knud Riis    Updated:  08 JAN 2012
                                                                                  
Airman: a014235.htm Surname: Henderson Init: J M Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 630

P_link: p324.htm Plane: LAN LL950 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Vesterlund

Crash_d: d220544 Buried_d: b270544 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 12. 20

  Denne Lancaster, LAN LL950, på minelægningsoperation natten til den 22. maj 1944 blev skudt i brand
af en tysk natjager over Midtjylland og styrtede ned lige vest for Vesterlund, sydvest for Nr. Snede (monument rejst her). En del af flykroppen blev fundet øst for Dørken by (afstand ca. 5 km, måske omkring her).
Alle ombordværende blev dræbt. De dræbte flyvere blev begravet i Esbjerg den 27. maj 1944. (Kilde: FAF)  
Se mindesten med inskription og sten for de 7 flyvere inde mellem træerne. Se også Lancaster fotos og
Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron.
Se avisartikel, politirapport og Meldinger fra Landscentralen modtaget fra Arne Mosgaard.

Flight Sergeant (Navigator) James Mitchell Henderson, 35 år, var søn af Alexander og Agnes Henderson,
Alloa, Clackmannanshire, United Kingdom; gift med Sheila Henderson. (Kilde: CWGC)

 On a minelaying operation on the night before 22 May 1994 LAN LL950 was shot down by a German night fighter over Jutland, caught fire and crashed just west of Vesterlund, south west of Nr. Snede (monument
erected here.) A part of the fuselage was found east of the village of Dørken (distance app. 5 km south west,
maybe about here.) All on board perished. The killed airmen were buried in Esbjerg on 27 May 1944.
The memorial stone with inscription and the stones to the 7 airmen are among the trees.
See also Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron.

Flight Sergeant (Navigator) James Mitchell Henderson, 35, was the son of Alexander and Agnes Henderson,
of Alloa, Clackmannanshire, United Kingdom, and the husband of Sheila Henderson. (Source: CWGC)

See Bomber Command No. 630 Squadron and 630 Squadron Home Page,
the No 57 Squadron and No 630 Squadron website, the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre and
the Wartime Memories Project - RAF East Kirby. This Lancaster - see photos - took off from RAF East Kirby.
Lost Bombers has this. 7 airmen.