Anthony Richard Tenison Smith       Updated: 13 APR 2021

Airman: a117008.htm Surname: Smith Init: ART Rank: F/O Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 206

P_link: p425.htm Plane: B24 KH410 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: At Aarestrup

Crash_d: d210445 Buried_d: d220647 C_link: c117.htm At_Next: Aarestrup

Natten til den 21. april 1945 fløj Liberator B 24 GR8 KH410 på anti u-bådspatrulje til Kattegat.  Ved midnat styrtede flyet imidlertid ned i den vestlige del af Rold Skov her. Hele besætningen omkom. Den tyske værnemagt begravede ligene i hemmelighed søndag den 22. april 1945 umiddelbart vest for nedstyrtningsstedet. Se monumentet "Flyverstenen" på nedstyrtningsstedet med link til vandretur. Se kort med FLYVERSTENEN, skift evt.til andre kort eller luftfotos
(Ortofotos). Zoom.nedstyrtningsstedet.
Se mere ved B24 KH410 og besætningen - fotos og rækkefølge af flyvergrave.

Flying Officer (Pilot) Anthony Richard Tenison Smith, 23 år, var søn af Philip Tenison Smith
og Theodora Mary Smith (f. Klitz), Mangateretere, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han blev uddannet i RNZAF hjemme, så i Canada og senere i Storbritannien med rang af
Flying Officer. (Kilde: AKM, se mere ved flyet.)

 Se bogen af Niels Nørgaard Nielsen: Historien bag "Flyverstenen" i Torstedlund Skov, 92 sider,
der fås fra Støvring Lokalarkiv, kort version Historien bag Flyverstenen.
Historisk Samling og Arkiv Himmerland skriver om dette fly. 11 flyvere. 

On the night before 21 April 1945 Liberator B 24 GRD KH410 flew on an anti submarine
patrol to Kattegat. However, at midnight the plane crashed into the western part of Rold Forest
here. All of the crew perished. The Wehrmacht buried the bodies secretly on Sunday, 22 April
1945, just west of the crash site. See the monument "The Aviator Stone"  at the crash site with link to a walk to the site. See map with The Aviator Stone and you may switch to other maps or aerial photos (Ortofotos). Zoom. See more at B24 KH410 and the crew - photos and the order
in which the airmen are buried!

Flying Officer (Pilot) Anthony Richard Tenison Smith, 23, was the son of Philip Tenison Smith
and of Theodora Mary Smith (nee Klitz), of Mangateretere, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
(Source: CWGC) He was trained in the Royal New Zealand Air Force at home, then in Canada
and later in Great Britain with the rank of Flying Officer. (Source: AKM, read more at the plane.)

See Coastal Command and No. 206 Squadron RAF (Wikipedia). This B-24 Liberator took off
from RAF Leuchars. See also RAF Leuchars - RAF Station homepage.
See also HAL JP336 and other planes that took off from from RAF Stornoway, see
Lost Airmen from RAF Stornoway. B24 KK299 was lost on 5 May 1945!
Google Map p425 Liberator B-24 KH410      p425MACR     11 airmen.