F. E. Finch Updated: 11 JAN 2024
Airman: o888380.htm Surname: Finch Init: F E Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 61
P_link: p369.htm Plane: LAN PB436 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Gunderup at Trend
Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
Nedstyrtningsstedet er
her.
(Kilde: Kristen Bak) Se nedstyrtningsstedet og dele af flyet. Se den lange version
Flystyrt, flugt og frelse af Vagn Vadgaard Kjær. 2 flyvere
flygtede og 5
flyvere
blev
ført til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
The crash site is
here.
(Source: Kristen Bak) See the crash site and Parts of the
plane. See the long version Air crash, escape
and rescue by Vagn Vadgaard Kjær. "29 - 30 August 1944 (At 02.10 hours). Gunderupgaard, 14 km S of Løgstør. Lancaster B.III, PB436 (QR-D). 61 BS, 5 BG, Skellingthorpe, Lincs. (Königsberg). At 20.19 hours F/Sgt Bruce Frank Loneon and his
crew took off on their 6th raid. On the night between 26 and 27 August they had
participated in the bombing raid on Königsberg, so they were prepared for the
flight of nearly 11 hours. The outward flight and the attack were uneventful, and
on the return flight the crew were already looking forward to breakfast when shortly after having passed the east coast of Jutland near the Mariager
Fjord they were hit by German flak. The inner starboard engine immediately caught
fire and F/Sgt Loneon very soon had to order the crew to bail out. 2 airmen escaped
and 4 airmen were
taken to
German POW-Camps. See
No.
61 Squadron in Wikipedia
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