Cyril Thomas Cobb Photo: Knud Riis 21 April 2013 Updated: 10 JUN 2022
Airman: a014129.htm Surname: Cobb Init: C T Rank: F/Sgt Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 75
P_link: p162.htm Plane: STI BF506 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: At Bøgballe
Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b180543 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 9. 6
"Under en stor overflyvning af Danmark
natten til den 21. april 1943, hvor bombemålene var
Stettin
og
Rostock,
nedstyrtede mindst 17 fly på dansk område. - -
STI BF506 var et af 8 fly, hvorfra 40 flyvere blev
begravet i Esbjerg. De 37 blev begravet 30. april 1943.
(Kilde: FAF. Cobb må være en af de 3 flyvere, der ikke blev begravet den dag.)
"Efter styrtet bjærgede tyske soldater fra
flybasen i Rye
her ligene af 6 flyvere fra besætningen og tog dem
til Esbjerg, hvor
de blev begravet. Da nedstyrtningsstedet blev udgravet 11. maj, blev liget af Flight Sergeant
Cobb
fundet og han blev begravet
ved sin besætning den 18. maj."
(Aircrew Remembered -
her)
Det forklarer hvorfor F/Sgt C.T. Cobb ikke blev
begravet i samme række som de 6 andre, se også
Grave 1948.
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Cyril Thomas Cobb, 30 år, var søn af Fred og Mary Cobb, Thames, Auckland,
New Zealand.
(Kilde: CWGC)
Philippa Tolley
talte på vegne af familie og venner af de 4 flyvere fra New Zealand den 21
April 2013.
Mindesten
for 7 flyvere fra
STI BF506 rejst
her af Mads Nielsen, Bøgballe. Se
Officielt besøg
1985,
Gæster fra New Zealand 1998 og 2004 og
Ved mindestenen 2008.
Se Om mindeceremonier 4. maj 2011
og
tale af Anders Straarup. Foto 25. maj 2011 viser
nedstyrtningsstedet bag
Mindestenen.
Se Stettin+Rostock April 1943 *
Kostbar gave på Hitlers fødselsdag * Besætningen på STI BF506.
Se også STI BF476
der mavelandede på Kragelund Fælled
her
40 minutter tidligere.
"At least 17 planes crashed in Danish
territory during a great overflight of Denmark on the night before
21 April 1943
targeting
Stettin - Szczecin and
Rostock.
STI BF506 was one of 8 planes from which 40 airmen were
buried in Esbjerg. The 37 of them were
buried on 30 April 1943. (Source: FAF. Cobb must be one of the 3 airmen who was
not buried that day.)
"After
the crash, nearby Luftwaffe soldiers from the airfield at Rye
here retrieved
the bodies of 6 of the crew, taking them to Esbjerg for burial. When the crash
site was excavated on May the 11th, the body of Flight Sergeant Cobb was found
and
laid to rest with his crew on the 18th. May." (Aircrew
Remembered -
here)
That explains why F/Sgt C.T. Cobb was not buried in
the same row as the 6 others, see
also
Graves 1948.
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Cyril Thomas Cobb, 30, was the son of Fred and
Mary Cobb, of Thames,
Auckland, New Zealand. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 146.
Philippa Tolley spoke on behalf of families
and friends of the 4 New Zealand airmen on 21
April 2013.
Monument to
7 airmen from
STI BF506 erected
here by Mads Nielsen, Bøgballe. See
Official visit
1985, Visitors from New Zealand 1998 and 2004
and
At monument 2008. See also About memorial ceremonies 2011 and the speech in
Bøgballe. Photo
25 May 2011 shows the crash site behind the
Monument.
Aircrew Remembered
has
this + Archive
Report. See
No. 75 Squadron
RNZAF-Wikipedia. This
Stirling took off from
RAF Newmarket.
The
IBCC has more on the Operation at
each airman.See The crew of Stirling III BF506 *
Airmen are relaxing *
Graves 1948 * Bill Ellis remembered *
21 April 2014.
75(nz)squadron has
a lot including RAF
Records April 1943 - find 20.04.43 with details of the last flight of this
plane and crew.
75 Squadron Association
NZ + UK
See also Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. See also STI BF476
which crash landed at Kragelund Fælled
here 40 minutes earlier. 7 airmen.