Alexander T. Lewis Updated: 07 MAR 2022
Airman: o888500.htm Surname: Lewis Init: A T Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 149
P_link: p084.htm Plane: STI N3752 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Rise near Aabenraa
Crash_d: d180542 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
Den 18. maj 1942 kom
STI N3752 ned på en mark tilhørende Risegård (her)
Rise Bygade 51, 6230 Rødekro. "På et minelægningstogt til »Forget-me-not« (Kiel
Bugt) natten mellem 17. og 18. maj 1942 mavelandede Stirling N3752 0 fra 149
Sqdn. ved Rise, nordøst for Åbenrå. Mavelandingen skyldtes ikke tyske
afværgeforanstaltninger, men en defekt højdemåler. Flyet fløj så lavt, at det
ramte jorden. Besætningen Flight Sgt. Jerman,
On 18 May 1942
STI N3752 came down in a field
belonging to Risegaard (here)
Rise Bygade 51, DK-6230 Rødekro.
"On a minelaying operation to "Forget-me-not"
(Kiel Bay) on 17 - 18 May 1942, Stirling N3752 0 of 149 Sqdn. belly-landed by
Rise, northeast of Åbenrå. This misfortune owed nothing to German defensive
action, but was due to a defective altimeter. Stirling 0 was flying so low that
it brushed a hill. F/S Jerman, F/S Butcher, "Airborne 2210 17May42 from Lakenheath for mining operations in The Sound (Daffodils area). Crashed 0115, while flying low, onto a hillside near Rise, on the SE outskirts of Rodkro, Denmark." (Lost Bombers)
"Sgt S.H.Butcher was interned in Camps
L3 /
L6 /
357.
PoW No.37 with Sgt F.Hoyland, PoW No.59, Sgt A.T.Lewis, PoW No.69, Sgt
J.E.Sloane, PoW No.91 and See
No. 149 Squadron
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