John Ernest Fitzgerald                           Updated:  08 JUN 2010

Airman: a023002.htm Surname: Fitzgerald Init: J E Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 166

P_link: p352.htm Plane: LAN LM694 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Aastruplund

Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c023.htm At_Next: Gl. Rye

Denne flyver og resten af besætningen fra LAN LM694 hviler på Gl. Rye Kirkegård

Denne Lancaster blev på tilbagevejen efter mineudlægning i Danzig/Gdansk-bugten her skudt ned af en tysk natjager her over Midtjylland ved Aastruplund. Nedstyrtningsstedet tæt på er ved mindekorset rejst her efter Danmarks befrielse i maj 1945. Se Anders Lund på nedstyrtningsstedet.

Gennem årene har der været mange kontakter mellem flyvernes familier og familien på Åstrupgård.
Se Anders Lund: Mine 7 flyverhelte og Vragdele på siden Åstrupgård.

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) John Ernest Fitzgerald, 19 år, canadier, var søn af John Ernest og
Effie Viola Fitzgerald, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Hæderstegn: DFM, Distinguished Flying Medal. (Kilde: CWGC)  Meget mere om ham i engelsk version.
Se hans navn i 47 navne i St. Clement Danes og i Horsens.

Airwar over Denmark har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 7 flyvere. Mere i engelsk version.

This airman and the rest of the crew of LAN LM694 rest on Gl. Rye Kirkegård.

On the return flight after minelaying in the Danzig (Gdansk) Bay here this Lancaster was shot down by a German night fighter here over the central part of Jutland at Aastruplund. The crash site at close range is at the memorial cross erected here after the liberation of Denmark in May 1945.
See Anders Lund at the crash site.

Over the years there have been many contacts between relatives of the airmen and the family on the farm. See Anders Lund: MY 7 FLYING HEROES and pieces of wreckage at the website Aastrupgaard.

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) John Ernest Fitzgerald, 19, a Canadian citizen, was the son of John Ernest and Effie Viola Fitzgerald, of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Awards: DFM, the Distinguished Flying Medal.  (Source: CWGC) See his name among 47 names in St. Clement Danes and in Horsens.
The Canadian Letters & Images Project has a fine Collection about John Ernest Fitzgerald.

Airwar over Denmark has more about this plane and its crew. 7 airmen. Lost Bombers has this.