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  Friends of the Museum of 
    Danish Resistance (FMV) mentions this as one 
    of a number of lectures at the  
    National 
    Museum of Denmark
    as the
    
    Museum of Danish Resistance has temporarily been closed due to a fire in 
    2013.  
    The  lecture was introduced in this way: 
    
    Wednesday 28 October, 19.00 
    Anders Straarup: Allied airmen shot down over Denmark          
    Anders Straarup, the man behind the 
    website www.airmen.dk, will tell us about 
    Allied airmen that were shot down over  
    Denmark during the Occupation. Anders Straarup states, "The 
    fallen airmen are not an anonymous group. They were men,  
    often very young, who lost their lives in the war of their time. We have 
    every reason to be grateful for what they did. The aim  
    of this website is to preserve their names, what their loved ones felt at 
    the loss of their airman and what Danes felt by experiencing the war at 
    close range." 
    
    
      
     
    On the night before 21 April 1945 
    Liberator B 24 GRD KH410 flew on an anti 
    submarine patrol to the Kattegat. However,  
    at
    midnight the plane crashed into the western part of Rold Forest - more 
    precisely about 2 km south of Aarestrup Church.  
    First the big plane had removed the tops of some beech trees. Then it hit a 
    group of spruces so about 200 trees were  
    crashed or torn up. The plane burned with the 11 members of the crew in or 
    around the wreck. All of the crew perished.  |