David John Robert Wilcox
Updated: 12 JUN 2022
Airman: o888136.htm Surname: Wilcox
Init: DJR Rank: F/O Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 75
P_link: p372.htm Plane: LAN LM268 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Ørslev Kohave
Crash_d: d120944 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
"Medens 240 RAF bombefly fløj til Darmstadt, fløj 76 Halifaxes og Lancasters til Kattegat og den vestlige del af Østersøen. Tre af mineflyene blev skudt ned af tyske natjagere." (FT 88-41-34) "Under en mineudlægningsoperation blev et "Lancaster" fly natten til den 12. september 1944 skudt i brand. Flyet kom lidt over midnat ind over Sydsjælland, hvor det styrtede ned i en ejendom i Ørslev Kohave. (Her, zoom.) Herved omkom ejeren parcellist Pommergaard, hans kone og tre voksne børn. Af de 7 ombordværende flyvere omkom de 5. "Air Bomber F/Sgt David John Robert Wilcox
blev hårdt kvæstet bragt til sygehuset i
Vordingborg, hvor tyskerne senere
hentede ham."
(FT 88-41-34) During a minelaying operation a Lancaster was hit and caught fire on the night before 12 September, 1944. The plane came in over south Zealand a little after midnight, where it crashed into a small farm in Ørslev Kohave. (Here, zoom) The owner Carl Pommergaard, his wife and their three adult children perished. Of the 7 airmen aboard 5 perished. Severely injured, Air Bomber F/Sgt David John Robert Wilcox was taken to the hospital in
Vordingborg, where the Germans later
fetched him. (Source:
FT 88-41-34) 3 airmen from LAN LM268 were buried in Svinø and 2 in Ørslev. 1 airman became a POW and 1 reached
Sweden. |