Stirling IV LK279 - Lillebælt Updated: 15 JAN 2022
Airman | Surname | Init | Rank | Service | Sqdn | P_link | Plane | Operation | Crash_site | Crash_d | Buried_d | C_link | At_Next |
e777195.htm | Ball | R J | W/O | RAF | 138 | p392r.htm | STI LK279 | Drop in DK | Lillebælt | d100245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
a058001.htm | Carthew | W J | F/Sgt | RAF | 138 | p392r.htm | STI LK279 | Drop in DK | Lillebælt | d100245 | b110745 | c058.htm | Middelfart |
a018001.htm | French | R Y | F/Sgt | RAAF | 138 | p392r.htm | STI LK279 | Drop in DK | Lillebælt | d100245 | b050146 | c018.htm | Fredericia |
e777196.htm | Haragan | W M | Sgt | RAF | 138 | p392r.htm | STI LK279 | Drop in DK | Lillebælt | d100245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777194.htm | Mercer | G E | P/O | RAF | 138 | p392r.htm | STI LK279 | Drop in DK | Lillebælt | d100245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777193.htm | Toes | G C | Sgt | RAF | 138 | p392r.htm | STI LK279 | Drop in DK | Lillebælt | d100245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777192.htm | Tucker | L S | F/Sgt | RAAF | 138 | p392r.htm | STI LK279 | Drop in DK | Lillebælt | d100245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
”Natten til den 10. februar 1945 stod man på 7 fynske modtagepladser
klar til at signalere til allierede våbenfly. Ved 22-tiden satte det imidlertid
ind med dårligt vejr,
Se
Google Map p392r Stirling LK279
og den lange version med detaljer. Se
også Poul Erik Pedersen om Short Stirling NF-L
LK279 og meget andet.
Dette var et af 15 fly
mistet med tab af 69 liv +
3 fly mistet uden tab af liv, 5 af dem i
RKSK,
se
Google Map Rebild,
Mindetavlen i Rebild og
Rebild 2012.
On 10 February 1945
STI LK279 crashed into the Lillebælt at Flækøjet about
here. It
failed to drop supplies in the drop zone
"Niels".
On 10 February 2015 the 70th anniversary of the air crash was commemorated at a
memorial service in
Christianskirken. Among the attendants were
This was one of 15 planes
crashed with the loss of 69 lives
+ 3 planes lost without loss of lives, 5 of them on
RKSK,
see Google
Map Rebild, Rebild
2012 and |