Alwyn Victor Howarth Updated: 03 OCT 2021
Airman: a074002.htm Surname: Howarth Init: A V Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 83
P_link: p351.htm Plane: LAN PB292 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Høgsholt near Vejle
Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: b080946 C_link: c074.htm At_Next: Randbøl
LAN PB292
eksploderede i luften og vragstykker faldt ned over et stort område nær Vejle. (Kilde: AOD)
En mindesten er nu
her
nær Høgsholtvej 273, 7100 Vejle, nær nedstyrtningsområdet.
5 flyvere omkom, og tyskerne gravede dem ned omkring 20 km mod vest ved
Vandel Flyveplads (her).
De blev fundet i 1945, identificeret og begravet ved
Randbøl Kirke.
Se 4. Maj 2017 af Niels Schaiffel.
Se hele teksten på
mindesmærket. Ved denne flyver er tekstudsnittet Vi værne vil om deres grav.
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator) Alwyn Victor Howarth, 27år, var søn af Eliza Beatrice Howarth, Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC) Se hans navn blandt 47 navne i St. Clement Danes og i Horsens.
5 flyvere fra LAN PB292 blev begravet i Randbøl. 2 flyvere blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre. Se Lancaster fotos.
LAN PB292 exploded in the air and debris fell in a very big
area near Vejle. (Source: AOD)
A memorial stone is now
here
near Høgsholtvej 273, 7100 Vejle, near the crash site area.
5 airmen perished, and the Germans dug them down about 20 km to the west at
Vandel Airfield
(here).
They were found in 1945, identified and buried at
Randbøl Church. See 4. Maj 2017 by Niels
Schaiffel.
See all of the text of the memorial here. At this airman
the extract is We will guard their grave.
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator) Alwyn
Victor Howarth, 27, was the son of Eliza Beatrice Howarth, of Blackpool,
Lancashire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
See
his name among
47 names in St. Clement Danes
and in
Horsens.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 51.
5 airmen from LAN PB292 were buried in Randbøl. 2 airmen were taken to German POW-Camps.
See 5 airmen from this plane among
47 names in London and Horsens *
Google Map HorsensEH47 *
No. 83 Squadron RAF
* Lancaster Photos * p351MACR
Lancaster III PB292 OL-S took off from
RAF Coningsby at 2030 hrs on 26 AUG 1944 targeting Königsberg. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this) 7 airmen.