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”Under en mineudlægningsoperation til
Danzig-bugten styrtede en Lancaster
(LAN
LM652)
den 27. august 1944 i havet, antagelig Kattegat.
Hele besætningen omkom.
En af flyets skytter, F/O G. Flegel, ligger begravet på Mandal Kirkegård
i Norge.” (FAF)
Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Gustaf Flegel, 23
år, var søn af Joseph og Sophia Flegel, gift med H. Margaret Flegel, Rossland
British Columbia, Canada.
Han er begravet ved
MANDAL
KIRKE, Norge, I. 2. 13.
(Kilde: CWGC)
Mere om Mandal Kirke.
Fra LAN LM652
er 1 flyver begravet i Tved på Mols og 1 i Mandal i Norge. 6 flyvere har ingen
kendt grav.
"Efter krigen er adskillige vragdele fundet i Begtrup Vig og i farvandet
syd for Mols Hoved, men det har ikke været muligt at identificere flyet ud fra
vragdelene.
Det må dog formodes, at der er tale om
LAN LM652" (FT 90-106-29) I så fald er flyet styrtet ned
måske omkring
her.
Se
Minelægningsområder og
Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.
During a mine laying operation to the
Gdansk Bay LAN LM652 crashed into the sea,
presumably the Kattegat, on 27 August, 1944.
All of the crew perished.
One of the gunners F/O G. Flegel is buried in Mandal Churchyard in Norway. (Source: FAF)
Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Gustaf Flegel,
23, was the son of Joseph and Sophia Flegel, and the husband of H. Margaret
Flegel, of Rossland British Columbia, Canada. He is buried at
MANDAL CHURCH, Norway, I. 2. 13. (Source: CWGC)
More about Mandal Church.
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the
BC Museum of Canada.
The
Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this and
Page 305 from book: Second World War, 1944.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 35.
"After the
war a number of pieces of wreckage have been found in Begtrup Vig (Cove) and in
the waters south of Mols Hoved, but it has not been possible to identify the
aircraft by the pieces of wreckage. However, it must be presumed that this is
LAN LM652" (FT 90-106-29) In that case the plane has
crashed maybe about
here."
See
No. 166 Squadron
RAF *
166 Squadron RAF-Lincolnshire.info *
Lancaster - Wikipedia
*
Lancaster Photos
Lancaster -
Bomber Command Museum of
Canada *
Avro 683
Lancaster Mk X - IWM
Duxford *
Minelaying areas 7 airmen.
Lancaster III LM652 AS-R
took off from
RAF Kirmington at 20.35 hrs on
26 AUG 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this .) See p350MACR. 7 airmen.
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