Derrick Cox
Updated:
15 JAN 2023 P_link: p407.htm Plane: LAN RA526 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat W of Samsø Crash_d: d120345 Buried_d: b230745 C_link: c103.htm At_Next: Tranebjerg Den 12. marts 1945 blev LAN RA526 skudt ned ud for Samsø. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"12.-13. marts 1945 (kl. 21.16). Farvandet V for
Ringebjerge på Samsø (omkring
her).
- Kl. 21.16 skød den tyske pilot, Major Werner Husemann, den første Lancaster ned.
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Derrick Cox, 20 år, var søn af Daniel Samson Cox og Leah Elisbeth Cox, Cradley Heath, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC) 5 flyvere fra
LAN RA526 drev ind på kysten af Samsø og blev begravet i
Tranebjerg.
On 12 March 1945
LAN RA526 was shot down off
Samsø.
(Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"12.-13. March 1945 (21:16). The waters W of Ringebjerge on Samsø (about
here).
- At
21:16 the German pilot Major Werner Husemann shot down the first Lancaster.
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Derrick Cox, 20, was
the
son of Daniel Samson Cox and Leah Elisbeth Cox, of Cradley Heath, Staffordshire,
United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC) 5 airmen from LAN RA526 drifted ashore and were buried in Tranebjerg Churchyard, 1 has no known grave and 1 became a POW. See
Lancaster-Wikipedia * Lancaster photos *
RAF Scampton Station
homepage and
RAF
Scampton at
RAF-Lincolnshire.info. |