Albert Robert Potter Photo: Mogens Jeppesen
Updated:
11 JUN 2022
Airman: a113057.htm Surname: Potter Init: A
R Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 196
P_link: p171.htm Plane: WEL HE395 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: At Over Jerstal
Crash_d: d290443 Buried_d: b070543 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 6-7
"Natten til den 29. april 1943
udførte RAF en stor mineudlægningsoperation over Østersøen og
de indre danske
farvande, hvorunder mindst 10 bombefly gik tabt over dansk område.
Et af disse, et Wellington fly, styrtede ned ved Over Jerstal kort efter midnat
den 29. april 1943.
Alle ombord blev dræbt. De 5 omkomne flyvere begravedes den
7. maj 1943." (FAF)
Se
Minelægningsområder med området Forget-Me-Not
(Kilde:
p171MACR).
Pilot Officer (Navigator) Albert Robert Potter,
20 år, var søn af Albert og Helena Maud Potter,
Dunstable, Bedfordshire, United
Kingdom.
(Kilde: CWGC)
Se monument for de 5 flyvere fra WEL HE395 rejst her syd for Over Jerstal. 5 flyvere.
"On the night before 29 April 1943 the
Royal Air Force carried out a big minelaying operation over
the Baltic Sea and
inner Danish waters. At least 10 bombers were lost over Danish territory.
One of these, a Wellington, crashed at Over Jerstal shortly after midnight on 29
April 1943.
All on board were killed. The 5 perished airmen were buried on 7 May
1943." (FAF)
See
Minelaying areas with the area Forget-Me-Not
(Source:
p171MACR).
Pilot Officer (Navigator) Albert Robert Potter,
20, was the son of Albert and Helena Maud Potter,
of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, United
Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 227.
See monument to the 5 airmen from WEL HE395 erected here south of Over Jerstal.
See
No. 196 Squadron
RAF - Wikipedia *
196 Squadron *
Wellington * Google Map p169+MINELAYING.
Wellington X HE395 ZO-
took off from
RAF Leconfield at 20:49 on 28 APR 1943.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) 5 airmen.