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John Ernest Fitzgerald
Updated: 02
NOV 2011
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.
7 flyvere.
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.
See
Bomber Command No. 166 Squadron and
166 Squadron RAF-Lincolnshire.info.
This
Lancaster - see
Lancaster photos - took off from
RAF Kirmington.
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has
this.
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