Risgårde Bredning. "På mineudlægningsoperation den 4. oktober 1944 nedstyrtede et Lancaster fly i Risgårde Bredning" (FAF) omkring her.

Se i Weekendavisen den 9. april 2010 Da krigen kom til Salling (pdf 3,05 MB) af Hans Mortensen om dette fly! Modtaget fra forfatteren. Zoom for at se detaljer.
Se også Google Map p378 Lancaster.

Flight Sergeant Kenneth Hunter, 22 år, var søn af Wilfred og Gladys Eveline Hunter, Staveley, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 219 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 blev begravet i Strandby, 1 i Skive (se monument også om de andre faldne) og 1 i Aalestrup. 2 forsvandt i havet. 2 reddede livet og blev taget til fange.

Se Lancaster fotos. Historisk Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om dette fly og dets besætning.
7 flyvere.

 Risgårde Bredning. "On a minelaying operation on 4 October 1944 a Lancaster crashed in Risgårde Bredning" (FAF) about here.
See also Google Map p378 Lancaster.

Flight Sergeant Kenneth Hunter, 22, was the son of Wilfred and Gladys Eveline Hunter, of Staveley, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 219, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 53.

1 airman buried in Strandby, 1 in Skive (see monument also to the 4 other KIA) and 1 in Aalestrup. 2 disappeared at sea. 2 saved their lives and became prisoners of war.

See No. 44 Squadron RAF (Wikipedia) No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron Association * No. 44 Squadron (RAF): Second World War. RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron.
Lancaster III PB235 KM-C took off from RAF Spilsby at 17.24 hrs on 04 OCT 1944.(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) p378MACR * Lancaster Photos.7 airmen.