David John Robert Wilcox
Updated: 12 JUN 2022
Airman: o888136.htm Surname: Wilcox
Init: DJR Rank: F/O Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 75
P_link: p372.htm Plane: LAN LM268 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Ørslev Kohave
Crash_d: d120944 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
"Under en mineudlægningsoperation blev et "Lancaster" fly natten til den 12. september 1944 skudt i brand. Flyet kom lidt over midnat ind over Sydsjælland, hvor det styrtede ned i en ejendom i Ørslev Kohave. (Her, zoom.) Herved omkom ejeren parcellist Pommergaard, hans kone og tre voksne børn. Af de 7 ombordværende flyvere omkom de 5. "Air Bomber F/Sgt David John Robert Wilcox
blev hårdt kvæstet bragt til sygehuset i
Vordingborg, hvor tyskerne senere
hentede ham."
(FT 88-41-34) During a minelaying operation a Lancaster was hit and caught fire on the night before 12 September, 1944. The plane came in over south Zealand a little after midnight, where it crashed into a small farm in Ørslev Kohave. (Here, zoom) The owner Carl Pommergaard, his wife and their three adult children perished. Of the 7 airmen aboard 5 perished. Severely injured, Air Bomber F/Sgt David John Robert Wilcox was taken to the hospital in
Vordingborg, where the Germans later
fetched him. (Source:
FT 88-41-34) 3 airmen from LAN LM268 were buried in Svinø and 2 in Ørslev. 1 airman became a POW and 1 reached
Sweden. |