Frank Pygram Updated: 14 FEB 2020
Airman: e777065.htm Surname: Pygram Init: F Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 487
P_link: p414.htm Plane: MOS NT123 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Øresund
Crash_d: d210345 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
MOS NT123
tog del
i angrebet på Gestapos hovedkvarter i København den 21. marts 1945. Se links om Shellhuset,
også RAF mindetavle.
Se Fotos og
Google Map Shell House Shellhuset.
Se også
Mosquito fotos
og
Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK
og
Mustang fotos.
Se også Kort over
angrebet på Shellhuset fra Derek Carter.
Flyet blev over Københavns Havn ramt i den ene
motor af antiluftskyts. Piloten meddelte over radioen, at han ville prøve at nå
frem til svensk område.
Det passerede den svenske ø Hven
her midt i Øresund i lav højde og med kraftig røg fra venstre vinge. Måske
har piloten regnet det for dansk område.
Han fløj over øen uden at lande og
styrtede i Øresund omkring
her.
De to flyvere kravlede ud på en vinge, men
kraftig blæst gjorde det umuligt for øboerne at komme til hjælp. Flyet sank kort
efter. De to flyvere forsvandt
og er aldrig fundet. (Kilde: FT 88-44-49)
Flight Sergeant Frank Pygram, 21 år, var
søn af Herbert Yates Pygram og Edna Pygram, Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 272 på the
Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne
på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde:
CWGC) 2 flyvere.
MOS NT123 took part in the attack on the Gestapo HQ in
Copenhagen on 21 March, 1945. See links about the
Shell House, also RAF memorial
tablet.
See
Photos and
Google Map Shell House.
See
Mosquito Photos
and
Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK
and Mustang
Photos.
See also Map of the air raid on the Shell House
from Derek Carter.
Over Copenhagen Harbour the plane was hit by flak
in an engine. Over the radio the pilot said that he would try to reach Swedish
territory.
It passed the Swedish island of Hven
here in the middle of the Øresund at a very low altitude and with heavy smoke
from the left wing.
Maybe the pilot considered it to be Danish territory. He
flew over the island without landing and crashed into the Sound about
here.
The two airmen crawled out on a wing, but heavy
wind made it impossible for residents of the island to help. The plane sank
after a short while.
The two airmen disappeared and have never been found. (Source:
FT 88-44-49)
Flight Sergeant Frank Pygram, 21, was the son
of Herbert Yates Pygram and Edna Pygram, of Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 272, among more than 20,000
airmen who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
This Mosquito from 487 Squadron RNZAF took off from RAF Fersfield. See p414MACR. 2 airmen.