Edward Robinson                                   Updated: 07 JAN 2022

Airman: a118003.htm Surname: Robinson Init: E Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 7

P_link: p219.htm Plane: LAN JA713 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Kattegat off Tunø

Crash_d: d040943 Buried_d: b200943 C_link: c118.htm At_Next: Århus

Den 4. september 1943 kl. 02.30 styrtede LAN JA713 i Kattegat syd for Tunø (omkring her)
på hjemvejen fra et bombetogt til Berlin. Hele besætningen omkom.
Se p219MACR. På luftfoto Samsø-Norsminde ses Tunø under Samsø. Se dykning ved flyet.

"15. september fandt en århusiansk fiskekutter, AS68 »Juliane«, ud for Norsminde (omkring her) en omkommet flyver og bragte liget til Arhus. Det var den 21-årige navigatør, F/Sgt Edvard Robinson, som blev begravet på Vestre kirkegård den 20. september." (FT 90-63-15) Fotos november 2011.

Flight Sergeant (Navigator) Edward Robinson, 21 år, var søn af Mr. og Mrs. R. S. Robinson, Spennymoor, Co. Durham, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se Den lange version fra Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift. LAN EE138 blev skudt ned ved Stadil under samme operation. Se Stadil - Flyverminde.
2 flyvere fra LAN JA713 blev begravet i Århus og 1 flyver i Esbjerg. 4 har ingen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 4 September 1943 at 02.30 hours LAN JA713 crashed into the Kattegat south of Tunø
(about here) on the return flight from a bombing raid on Berlin. All of the crew perished.
See diving at the aircraft = dykning ved flyet on the website Vragguiden - map and photos.

"On 15 September a fishing cutter from Aarhus, AS “Juliane”, found a perished airman off Norsminde (about here) and took his body to Aarhus. It was Navigator F/Sgt Edvard Robinson, who was buried
in Aarhus West Cemetery on 20 September." (FT 90-63-15) See Photos November 2011.

Flight Sergeant (Navigator) Edward Robinson, 21, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Robinson,
of Spennymoor, Co. Durham, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC) Rest in peace
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P2, P234. 

See The long version from (Danish) Aviation Historical Review.
LAN EE138 was shot down at Stadil on the same operation. See Stadil - Memorial.
2 airmen from LAN JA713 were buried in Aarhus and 1 airman in Esbjerg. 4 have no known grave.

See Lancaster * Lancaster photos * No. 7 Squadron RAF * 7 Squadron Association * p219MACR.
In aerial photo Samsø-Norsminde Tunø is seen below Samsø. IBCC has details about the operation at each airman.              
Lancaster III JA713 MG-V took off from RAF Oakington at 20:12 on 03 SEP 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this with details+Archive Report) 7 airmen.