

NO KNOWN grave - ingen kendt grav
17 AUG 2015
DK*UK:
Runnymede*US: Cambridge +
Netherlands
De
fleste af de flyvere, der ikke har nogen
kendt grav, druknede på havet og forsvandt. Hvis enten flyet eller en
flyver fra det kom ned i Danmark er besætningen taget med i den fremragende
Airwar over Denmark og dermed i
www.airmen.dk. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift
nævner 25 fly mere, hvor hele besætningen forsvandt. +
HAL JP330.
I 25 FT-fly er der 127 uden kendt grav.
Søg e777 i databasen for at se alle.
Det giver 937 faldne allierede
flyvere uden kendt grav i Danmark - og det er uden Vestjylland og
Sønderjylland, som FT aldrig nåede til i 1985-90! Måske ville der så have været
10-20 fly mere fra Nordsøen eller Østersøen, hvor alle forsvandt.
25 FT-fly har 1
flyver begravet i Sverige.
Mod krigens slutning begravede tyskerne i mange
tilfælde de faldne allierede flyvere tæt
på nedstyrtningsstedet. Ofte blev det bemærket af de lokale
beboere, som om ikke før så lige efter befrielsen 5. maj 1945 sørgede for at få
flyverne begravet på en kirkegård. I nogle tilfælde var det ikke muligt for danskere
at finde, hvor de faldne flyvere var gravet ned.
I Danmark er sat en
mindeplade ved Tuborg Havn i 1980 for allierede flyvere 1939 - 1945, der
fandt deres sidste hvilested i danske farvande.
I England mindes mere end 20.000 allierede
flyvere uden nogen kendt grav på
Runnymede Memorial
her,
overblik her.
Cooper's Hill Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20, UK.
Se fotos fra NOV 2013.
Her ses et
digt af Paul H. Scott, her på dansk.
156 amerikanere af de 937 flyvere uden kendt grav
set i AirmenDK
har deres navne
indhugget i Tablets of the Missing,
Cambridge American
Cemetery og
54 ses i
Netherlands American Cemetery. Se hvor
4 flyvere fra PAF mindes.
Most of
the airmen, who have no known grave, drowned at sea and disappeared.
The crew is included in the excellent
Airwar over Denmark
and then also in
www.airmen.dk
if either the plane or an airman from it came down in Denmark.
Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift
(Danish) Aviation Historical Review mentions 25 planes more where all of the
crew disappeared. + HAL JP330.
In 25 FT-planes there are
127 airmen with NO KNOWN grave. Search e777- see all.
That means 937 fallen allied airmen with NO KNOWN grave in Denmark - and that
is without West Jutland and South Jutland, which FT
never managed to register in
1985-90! Maybe that would have added 10-20 more planes from the
North Sea or the
Baltic Sea, where all of the crew disappeared.
25 FT-planes has
1 airman buried in Sweden.
Towards the end of the war the Germans in many cases buried the fallen allied
airmen close to the crash site.
Often it was noticed by the local residents, who if not
before then right after the
liberation on 5 May 1945 managed to get the airmen buried in a churchyard.
In some cases it was not possible for Danes to find where the
fallen airmen had
been dug down.
In Denmark a memorial tablet
at Tuborg Harbour to allied airmen 1939 - 1945 who found
their final resting place in Danish waters was unveiled in 1980.
In England more than 20,000 airmen of RAF, RCAF, RAAF and RNZAF with no known
grave are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
here,
and here.
Cooper's Hill Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20, UK.
See photos from NOV 2013.Here you see a
poem by Paul H. Scott.
156 Americans
out of the
937 airmen with NO KNOWN grave seen on AirmenDK
have their names inscribed on Tablets of the
Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery
and 54 are seen at
Netherlands American Cemetery. See where 4
airmen of the PAF are commemorated. MIA = Missing in Action = No known
grave.
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