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. |