John James Martin Crew
photo *Tree-photos Photo: Mogens Jeppesen Upd:
12 APR 2023
Airman: a113094.htm Surname: Martin Init: J
J Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 83
P_link: p258.htm Plane: LAN JB412 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Varnæs
Crash_d: d290144 Buried_d: b020244 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 4-22
"Natten til den 29.
januar 1944 var RAF´s bombemål i Tyskland, som så ofte før, Berlin. Ruten både
ud
og hjem gik over Danmark. 4 fly nedstyrtede denne nat over Sønderjylland,
heraf 2 efter at være stødt
sammen i luften over Als." (FAF)
Det var HAL JD273 nær Kliplev, LAN
JB412 nær Varnæs samt efter kollision LAN JA967
nær Broballe
her og LAN HK537 nær Mjels
her.
LAN JB412
styrtede
ned spredt over et stort område nordøst for Varnæs med midten
her,
se også kortet Flystyrt ved Varnæs.
"To besætningsmedlemmer, antagelig T.K. McCash og
J.J. Martin sprang ud med
faldskærm fra for lav højde og blev dræbt. De blev begravet den 2. februar 1944.
J.R. Tree blev fundet druknet ved Sønderborg i juni
1944. Begravelsen fandt sted
den 22. juni.
Fire besætningsmedlemmer overlevede og blev taget til fange." (FAF)
PS. Liget af
J.R. Tree drev ind nær
Ballebro Fyr,
Ballebrovej 21, 6400 Sønderborg,
luftfoto her.
Flight Engineer (Navigator) John James Martin,
22 år, var søn af Arthur og Emily Laura Madeline Martin, Carnforth, Lancashire,
United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Se en personlig beretning om dette flystyrt fra
Hans Brandt om Bomberen.
Dengang en vaks dreng på 11 år,
i 2009 aktiv pensionist i
Børkop. Død 2. januar 2017.
Google Map p258 LAN JB412 har detaljer om hvor flyverne
landede fra
Lorelle og
andre pårørende til
J.R. Tree.
3 flyvere fra
LAN JB412 blev begravet i Aabenraa og 4
blev ført til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Se Lancaster fotos.
Se p258MACR.
7 flyvere.
"On the night before 29 January, 1944,
the target for a RAF bombing raid was, as so often before, Berlin. The route
both out and home was over Denmark. 4 planes crashed this night over Southern
Jutland, 2 of them after a collision in the air over Als." (FAF)
It was
HAL JD273 near Kliplev, LAN JB412
near Varnæs and after the collision LAN JA967 near
Broballe
here and LAN HK537 near Mjels
here.
LAN JB412 crashed over a great area north east of
Varnæs with the centre
here
see also the map Air crash near Varnæs.
Two crew members, presumably T.K. McCash and
J.J. Martin bailed out with their parachutes too near
the ground and were killed. They were buried in Aabenraa on 2 February 1944.
J.R. Tree was found drowned at Sønderborg in June 1944. The burial took place on 22 June 1944.
Four crew members survived and became POWs. (FAF)
PS. The body of
J.R. Tree was washed ashore near the lighthouse
Ballebro Fyr,
Ballebrovej 21, 6400 Sønderborg,
aerial photo here. 250 m from
Ballebro
Havn.
See a personal account from Hans Brandt about the
Bomber.
Google Map p258 LAN JB412 has details of where the airmen
landed from
Lorelle and other relatives of
J.R. Tree.
Flight Engineer (Navigator) John James Martin,
22, was the son of Arthur and Emily Laura Madeline Martin, of Carnforth, Lancashire,
United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
No man hath greater love than he who gives his life for his friends
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 68.
3 airmen from
LAN JB412 were buried in
Aabenraa and 4 were taken to
German POW-Camps. See
No. 83 Squadron RAF
*
Lancaster Photos *
p258MACR.
Lancaster III JB412 OL-B took off from
RAF Wyton at 00:19 on
29 JAN 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) 7 airmen.