Kenneth Albert Nordheimer                   Updated:  09 JAN 2012

Airman: a045021.htm Surname: Nordheimer Init: K A Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 405

P_link: p343.htm Plane: LAN PB239 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Sylt

Crash_d: d170844 Buried_d: b070944 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Den 17. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB239 i Nordsøen (måske omkring her). Hele besætningen
omkom. Flyets opgave var at kaste synlig markering og derefter bomber på målet Kiel. Andre fly
kunne derpå kaste bomber efter markeringen fra denne Stifinder. (Kilde: MACR - rapport om tabt fly)

E. N. Jolly og K. A. Nordheimer drev i land på Rømø og er muligvis begravet i Kirkeby den
7. september 1944. En tysk feltpræst medvirkede. (Kilde: FAF)

Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Kenneth Albert Nordheimer, 20 år, var adoptivsøn af Albert og
Dorothy Nordheimer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra LAN PB239 blev begravet i Kirkeby, 1 i Esbjerg og 2 i Kiel i Tyskland. 3 har ingen kendt grav.
8 flyvere.

On 17 August 1944 LAN PB239 crashed in the North Sea (maybe about here). All of the crew
perished. The mission of this aircraft was visual marking and bombing targeting Kiel. (Source: MACR)
The Pathfinders helped to make bombing more accurate.

E. N. Jolly and K. A. Nordheimer drifted ashore on Rømø. They were buried in Kirkeby, possibly on 
7 September 1944. A German Army Chaplain officiated at the graveside ceremony. (Source: FAF)

Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Kenneth Albert Nordheimer, 20, was the adopted son of Albert and
Dorothy Nordheimer, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Source: CWGC)
In proud and loving memory / of a young life / lost in the fight / for freedom

2 airmen from LAN PB239 were buried in Kirkeby, 1 in Esbjerg and 2 in Kiel in Germany.
3 have no known grave.

See Bomber Command No. 405 Squadron RCAF *  405 Squadron - The Canadians * No. 405 Squadron of Canadian Wings * Lancaster Photos
This Canadian Lancaster took off from RAF Gransden Lodge. Lost Bombers has this. 8 airmen.