Douglas William Henry Davey Updated: 29 MAR 2021 Airman: a116003.htm Surname: Davey Init: DWH Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 90 P_link: p362.htm Plane: LAN LM184 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: At Aalestrup Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: b010944 C_link: c116.htm At_Next: Aalestrup
“Natten til den 30. August 1944 overfløj næsten 600 britiske bombefly
Danmark under bombe- Den 31. august ved aftenstide
var der en højtidelighed på nedstyrtningsstedet, gårdejer Martin Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Douglas William Henry Davey var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC) LAN LM184 styrtede ned her omkring 150 m nord for Hvamvej 36, 9620 Aalestrup. (Kilde: Kaj Christensen, dengang 11 år. Han tog et par stykker af flyvraget, der havde lavet et kæmpestort krater.) Det var få minutter før LAN PA163 i en ildsøjle styrtede ned i Lovns Bredning. Historisk
Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om
dette fly og dets besætning.
In the night before 30 August, 1944, nearly 600 bombers flew over Denmark on
bombing raids to Königsberg and Stettin (Kaliningrad and
Szczecin).
Flying over North Jutland,
Kattegat and Sweden heading for the targets the formations for Stettin were
heavily attacked by German night
fighters. At least 10 British bombers were shot
down over Denmark that night. At
midnight a burning Lancaster crashed just south of Aalestrup. On 31
August there was a ceremony in the evening at the crash site, farmer Martin
Husum´s field. A Catholic and an Evangelical army chaplain were present, and
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Douglas William
Henry Davey was from the United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
LAN LM184 crashed
here about 150 m north of Hvamvej 36, 9620 Aalestrup. (Kilde: Kaj
Christensen, then 11 years old. He took parts of the wreckage, which had |