Fred George Shields                             Updated: 08 OCT 2021

Airman: a067003.htm Surname: Shields Init: F G Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 166

P_link: p285.htm Plane: LAN ND625 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sejerø Bugt (Bay)

Crash_d: d100444 Buried_d: b090644 C_link: c067.htm At_Next: Odden/Overby

”I forbindelse med en stor mineudlægningsoperation i Danzig bugt natten til den 10. april 1944 blev
mindst 8 RAF fly skudt ned over Danmark. Et af disse fly, en Lancaster, styrtede i havet vest for Nekselø.

Alle ombordværende omkom." (FAF)  LAN ND625 styrtede ned her. Minelægningsområder * Lancaster fotos.
Se monument for 3 flyvere fra LAN ND625 på Odden Kirkegård.

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Fred George Shields var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Besætningen er begravet i Odden/Overby (3), Kalundborg (2), Fårevejle (1) og Sejerø (1). 7 flyvere.

"In connection with a big mine laying operation in the Gdansk Bay on the night before 10 April, 1944 at
least 8 RAF planes were shot down over Denmark. One of these planes, a Lancaster, crashed into the sea
west of Nekselø.

All on board perished." (FAF) LAN ND625 crashed here.
See monument to 3 airmen from LAN ND625 at Odden Churchyard.

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Fred George Shields was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 96.

The airmen are buried in Odden/Overby (3), Kalundborg (2), Fårevejle (1) and Sejerø (1).

See No. 166 Squadron RAF * 166 Squadron RAF-Lincolnshire.info * Lancaster-BC Museum.Canada
Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford * Lancaster photos.
Lancaster III ND625 AS-S took off from RAF Kirmington at 21.25 hrs on 09 APR 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p285MACR. 7 airmen.