Whitley V N1383 - Vildmosen Updated: 05 MAY 2021
Airman | Surname | Init | Rank | Service | Sqdn | P_link | Plane | Operation | Crash_site | Crash_d | Buried_d | C_link | At_Next |
o888098.htm | Barr | V H | Sgt | RAF | 102 | p007.htm | WHI N1383 | Attack DK | Vildmosen | d260440 | o888 | o888.htm | POW |
a107001.htm | Haithwaite | N | Sgt | RAF | 102 | p007.htm | WHI N1383 | Attack DK | Vildmosen | d260440 | b280440 | c107.htm | Vadum |
a107002.htm | Hayes | J F | Sgt | RAF | 102 | p007.htm | WHI N1383 | Attack DK | Vildmosen | d260440 | b280440 | c107.htm | Vadum |
a107003.htm | Horrigan | O G | F/O | RAF | 102 | p007.htm | WHI N1383 | Attack DK | Vildmosen | d260440 | b280440 | c107.htm | Vadum |
a107004.htm | Whitley | C C | AC 2 | RAF | 102 | p007.htm | WHI N1383 | Attack DK | Vildmosen | d260440 | b280440 | c107.htm | Vadum |
Begravelsen af flyverne fandt sted den 28. april
under medvirken af en tysk feltpræst. Da præsten havde bedt Fadervor, blev der
affyret æressalut, og mandskabet Efter nedstyrtningen i 1940 skubbede tyskere
ueksploderede bomber i krateret og fyldte det med tørvejord. I 1978 udgravede
danske soldater stedet og bortsprængte 1 flyver blev taget til fange. 4 flyvere blev begravet i Vadum. 5 flyvere.
"During an attack on Aalborg Airport
on the night before 26 April, 1940 a Whitley was shot down by flak. Its radio
communication with its base ceased at The raid was on
Rødslet Airfield
Aalborg West
here. See also
German airfields near Aalborg.
Rørdal Airfield =
Aalborg Ost
here, more here.
After the crash in 1940 Germans pushed unexploded
bombs into the crater and filled it with peat soil. In 1978 Danish
soldiers excavated the place and blew up See
No. 102 Squadron (Wikipedia)
* No. 102
"Ceylon" Squadron (RAF) *
Whitley
* p007MACR |