Benny T. J. Newland Updated: 29 JAN 2022
Airman: o888026.htm Surname: Newland
Init: BTJ Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 82
P_link: p019.htm Plane: BLE R3904 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: At Aabybro. 2km E
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: o888
C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
BLE R3904 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940.
Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.
Google Map p014-024 (Kilde:
Ole Rønnest)
Så snart A-flighten var ude af flak-bæltet faldt
de 9 tyske jagere over den.
6. R 3904 blev ramt først og styrtede ned
(her) ved Aabybro.
Newland, piloten, reddede sig i faldskærm.
Ankers og Turner omkom i flyet.
(Find nummeret
(1.-11.) i
angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)
Pilot Officer Benny T.J. Newland var pilot på R 3904.
(Kilde: p019MACR.)
Han blev
ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p019MACR
BLE R3904 took part in the attack on
Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940.
The crash site is here.
See also
Google Map p014-024.
(Source:
Ole Rønnest)
As soon af A-flight had come through the
anti-aircraft fire the nine German fighters swooped on them.
6. R 3904 was hit first and crashed
(here) at Aabybro.
Newland, the pilot, landed safely by parachute.
Ankers and Turner died in the crash.
(Find the number
(1.-11.) in
Attack on - in text from Shot down over Denmark)
Pilot Officer Benny T.J. Newland was the Pilot of R 3904. (Source: p019MACR.) He was taken to German POW-Camps.
See No. 82 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia
* 82 Squadron Blenheims,
Watton, 1940 * Bristol Blenheim
*
Aircraft
Restoration Company, Duxford -
Bristol Blenheim *
Blenheim L6739 -- Rolled Out.
Photo: RAF Memorial,
Watton by Ole Rønnest
The
reconstructed R3821 that visited
Aalborg in 2000 due to efforts by
Ole Rønnest.
Blenheim IV R3904 UX-F took off from
RAF Watton at 08:40
on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew
Remembered has
this+Archive
Report.) Bristol Blenheim*p019MACR
3 airmen.