Windsor Thomas Henry Gale Updated: 13 APR 2021 Airman: a117002.htm Surname: Gale Init: WTG Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 206 P_link: p425.htm Plane: B24 KH410 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: At Aarestrup Crash_d: d210445 Buried_d: d220647 C_link: c117.htm At_Next: Aarestrup
Natten til den 21. april 1945 fløj
Liberator B 24 GR8 KH410 på anti u-bådspatrulje til Kattegat. Ved
midnat styrtede flyet imidlertid ned i den vestlige del af Rold Skov
her. Hele besætningen omkom. Den tyske værnemagt begravede ligene i
hemmelighed søndag den 22. april 1945 umiddelbart vest for nedstyrtningsstedet.
Pilot Officer (Flight Engineer) Windsor Thomas Henry Gale, 24 år, var søn af Sena Gale, Cardiff, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC) En yngre bror, sømand Roy Gale, besøgte
graven i januar 1951, da hans skib anløb Aalborg.
On the night before
21 April 1945 Liberator B 24 GRD KH410 flew on an anti submarine patrol to
Kattegat. However, at midnight the plane crashed into the western part of Rold
Forest
here. All of the crew perished. The Wehrmacht buried the bodies secretly on Sunday, 22
April, 1945, just west of the crash site. See the monument A younger brother, Roy Gale, a sailor,
visited the grave in January 1951, when his ship called at Aalborg. |