Frederick Ralph Orritt
Updated:
07 NOV 2011
Airman: a117007.htm
Surname: Orritt Init: F R Rank: F/Sgt 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.
Se monumentet "Flyverstenen" på nedstyrtningsstedet.
Se mere ved B24 KH410 og
besætningen - fotos og rækkefølge af flyvergrave.
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator, Mechanic /
Air Gunner) Frederick Ralph Orritt, 21 år, var søn
af William Mather
Orritt og Lillian Martha Orritt, Bootle, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Se bogen fra 2011 af
Niels Nørgaard Nielsen: Historien bag "Flyverstenen" i Torstedlund Skov,
der fås fra Lokalhistorisk Arkiv
for tidligere Støvring Kommune, se Salg.
Hjemmeværnets Historiske Samling i Himmerland skriver
om dette fly.
11 flyvere.
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
"The Aviator Stone" at the crash site.
See more at
B24 KH410 and the crew
- photos and the order in which the airmen are buried!
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator, Mechanic /
Air Gunner) Frederick Ralph Orritt, 21, was the son
of William Mather
Orritt, and of Lillian Martha Orritt, of Bootle, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
(Source:
CWGC)
Coastal
Command *
206 Squadron: Coastal
Command. The book in Danish has many photos.
This
B-24 Liberator
took off from RAF
Leuchars. See also RAF
Leuchars - RAF Station homepage.
11 airmen.