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)
Han kom på et tysk feltlazaret, så til Tyskland til forhør i
Dulag Luft Oberursel. Derfra til Stalag Luft III og Stalag III-A at Luckenwalde. (Kilde: AOD)

Fra LAN LM268 blev 3 flyvere begravet på Svinø og 2 i Ørslev. 1 flyver blev krigsfange og 1 nåede Sverige.
Se Lancaster fotos og
Minelægningsområder. 7 flyvere.

"While 240 RAF bombers flew to Darmstadt, 76 Halifaxes and Lancasters flew to Kattegat and the western part of the Baltic Sea. Three of the minelaying planes were shot down by German night fighters."
(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)
He was taken to a German field hospital, then to Germany to interrogation in
Dulag Luft Oberursel. From there to Stalag Luft III and Stalag III-A at Luckenwalde. (Source:AOD)

3 airmen from LAN LM268 were buried in Svinø and 2 in Ørslev. 1 airman became a POW and 1 reached Sweden.
See No. 75 Squadron RNZAF. See Lancaster Photos and Minelaying areas.  p372MACR har mere.
75(nz)squadron has more, also 75(NZ) Squadron RAF Records from September 1944, find entry of 11/12.9.44, and see that this plane with Captain Hadley failed to return. 
Lancaster I LM268 AA-D took off from RAF Mepal at 19:35 on 11 SEP 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this+Archive Report.)  7 airmen.