Ralph Sterling Taylor Updated: 11 MAY 2021 Airman: o888101.htm Surname: Taylor Init: R S Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 142 P_link: p122.htm Plane: WEL BJ653 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Lintrup Crash_d: d131042 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
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13. oktober 1942 kl. 18.36 lettede
WEL BJ653 fra RAF Grimsby med kurs mod Kiel med 810
brandbomber på 4 pund. "4 flyvere henvendte sig til beboere i omegnen.
Politiet blev ringet op af disse, og flyverne blev hentet og afleveret til
tyskerne." (DFEV) W/O J.C.Heddon blev interneret i L1 Barth / L6
Heydekrug / L4 Gross Tychow med Sgt A.M.Paton, Sgt L.H.H.Stift og Sgt
R.S.Taylor.
On 13 October 1942 at 1836 hrs.
WEL BJ653 left RAF Grimsby targeting Kiel with 810 x 4 lb
incendiaries. No news to the base after take-off.
The
plane crashed near Lintrup,
here
overview here,
about 250 m north of Tornumgaardsvej 3, DK-6660 Lintrup. "4 airmen approached residents of the area who
called the police and the airmen were fetched and handed over to the
Germans." (DFEV) W/O J.C.Heddon was interned in Camps
L1 Barth /
L6 Heydekrug /
L4 Gross Tychow with
Sgt A.M.Paton, Sgt L.H.H.Stift and Sgt R.S.Taylor. |