Reginald John Freeman                    Updated: 10 OCT 2021

Airman: a095004.htm Surname: Freeman Init: R J Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 149

P_link: p301.htm Plane: STI LJ526 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Øster Skerninge

Crash_d: d230444 Buried_d: b170545 C_link: c095.htm At_Next: Svendborg

Den 23. april 1944 kl. 23.15 styrtede STI LJ526 på en mark ved Hovgaarden ved Øster Skerninge
(her) nær Svendborg. Det blev skudt ned af en tysk natjager under en mineudlægningsoperation til
Fehmarn Bælt. Hele besætningen omkom. (Kilde: AOD+p301MACR)

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Reginald John Freeman, 22 år, var søn af John Robert og Lydia Freeman,
Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han og de andre flyvere blev fundet nedgravet efter befrielsen den 5. maj 1945.
Den 17. maj 1945 blev de begravet i Svendborg. Se mange detaljer ved STI LJ526. 7 flyvere.

On 23 April 1944 at 23.15 hours STI LJ526 crashed into a field at Hovgaarden at Øster Skerninge
(here) near Svendborg. It was shot down during a minelaying mission to the Fehmarn Belt by a
German night fighter. All of the crew perished. (Source: AOD+p301MACR)

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Reginald John Freeman, 22, was the son of John Robert and Lydia Freeman,
of Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 167.

After the liberation on 5 May 1945 airmen from this crew were found dug down.
On 17 May 1945 all of the found airmen were buried. See many details at STI LJ526.

See No. 149 Squadron - Wikipedia and Short Stirling.
Stirling III LJ526 OJ-P took off from RAF Lakenheath at 2042 hrs on 23 APR 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.