Lancaster III LM694 - Aastruplund                                                    Updated:  02 NOV 2011

Airman Surname Init Rank Service Sqdn P_link Plane Operation Crash_site Crash_d Buried_d C_link At_Next
a023001.htm Dee F J F/Lt RAF 166 p352.htm LAN LM694 Minelaying Aastruplund d270844 b111111 c023.htm Gl. Rye
a023002.htm Fitzgerald J E F/Sgt RCAF 166 p352.htm LAN LM694 Minelaying Aastruplund d270844 b111111 c023.htm Gl. Rye
a023003.htm Holt W A Sgt RAF 166 p352.htm LAN LM694 Minelaying Aastruplund d270844 b111111 c023.htm Gl. Rye
a023004.htm Palmer G W F/O RAF 166 p352.htm LAN LM694 Minelaying Aastruplund d270844 b111111 c023.htm Gl. Rye
a023005.htm Russell J B F/O RCAF 166 p352.htm LAN LM694 Minelaying Aastruplund d270844 b111111 c023.htm Gl. Rye
a023006.htm Schafer J F/Sgt RCAF 166 p352.htm LAN LM694 Minelaying Aastruplund d270844 b111111 c023.htm Gl. Rye
a023007.htm White J P/O RAF 166 p352.htm LAN LM694 Minelaying Aastruplund d270844 b111111 c023.htm Gl. Rye


Denne Lancaster blev på tilbagevejen efter mineudlægning i Danzig/Gdansk-bugten her skudt ned af en tysk natjager her over Midtjylland ved Aastruplund. Nedstyrtningsstedet tæt på er ved mindekorset rejst her efter Danmarks befrielse i maj 1945. Hele besætningen omkom.
Se Anders Lund: Mine 7 flyverhelte og Vragdele på siden Åstrupgård. Se også Anders Lund på nedstyrtningsstedet. Se meget på engelsk om John E. Fitzgerald.

Den tyske værnemagt nedgravede ligene af de dræbte flyvere på Gl. Rye Kirkegård, som var afspærret, mens det foregik. Graveren og en anden mand fra byen sneg
sig dog op i kirketårnet, hvorfra de kunne se tyske soldater sparke nogle sække ned i graven. Datoen er usikker, da der intet blev indført i kirkebogen i 1944.
(Kilde: FAF)

7 flyvere. Se disse flyvere blandt 47 navne i St. Clement Danes og i Horsens.

On the return flight after minelaying in the Danzig (Gdansk) Bay here this Lancaster was shot down by a German night fighter here over the central part of Jutland
at Aastruplund. The crash site at close range is at the memorial cross erected here after the liberation of Denmark in May 1945. All of the crew perished.
 See Anders Lund: MY 7 FLYING HEROES and pieces of wreckage at the website Aastrupgaard. A Canadian website has many details about John Ernest Fitzgerald.

The German Wehrmacht dug down the bodies on Gl. Rye churchyard, which was sealed off, while it happened. However, the grave digger and another resident of
Rye stole a glance at it from the tower of the church, from which they saw German soldiers kicking some bags into the grave. The date is uncertain, as it was not recorded in the parish register in 1944. (Source: FAF)

See Bomber Command No. 166 Squadron and 166 Squadron RAF-Lincolnshire.info. This Lancaster - see Lancaster photos - took off from RAF Kirmington.
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has this. See these airmen among 47 names in St. Clement Danes and Horsens.