I forbindelse med en flyvning med våben
nødlandede STI LJ950 på vandet ved Tipperne
(omkring her
Kilde: Christian Ringskou) natten til den 27. april 1945.
Flyets bombekaster G.C. Smale, blev
indlagt på det tyske feltlazaret i Horne by, hvor han døde den 8. maj 1945. Han
blev begravet i Horne
af sognepræsten den 10. maj 1945.
Resten af besætningen blev taget til fange af værnemagten i Nymindegab (her).
(Kilde: FAF)
Det var Flying Officer (Pilot) Thomas H. Griffiths, Flight Sergeant (Navigator)
Eric R. Goodare, Sergeant (Wireless Operator) William H. Oates,
Sergeant (Air
Gunner) Denis O'Connor og Sergeant (Flight Engineer) James Rafferty. (Kilde: AOD)
69 omkomne flyvere fra dette og 14 andre fly mindes på
Mindetavlen i Rebild. De mistede livet under
nedkastningsoperationer til modstandsbevægelsen.
Af samme grund mindes de i London. Se 69 flyvere - St.
Clement Danes. Se
Google Map Rebild med 15 fly mistet med tab af 69 liv + 3 fly mistet
uden tab af liv.
6 flyvere.
On the night before 27 April 1945
STI LJ950 landed on the water at Tipperne
(about
here Source: Christian Ringskou)
on a supply operation to the Danish
resistance.
Flying Officer (Bomb
Aimer) G. C. Smale was taken to the German army hospital in Horne where he died
on 8 May 1945. He was buried in Horne
by the vicar on 10 May 1945.
The rest of the crew were captured by the Wehrmacht in Nymindegab (here).
(Source: FAF)
They were Flying Officer (Pilot) Thomas H. Griffiths, Flight Sergeant
(Navigator) Eric R. Goodare, Sergeant (Wireless Operator) William H. Oates,
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Denis O'Connor og Sergeant (Flight Engineer) James Rafferty. (Source: AOD)
69 perished airmen from this and 14 other planes
are commemorated on the
Memorial Plaque in Rebild.
They lost their lives in supply operations to the
Danish resistance. For the
same reason they are commemorated in London. See 69
airmen - St. Clement Danes. See
Google Map Rebild with 15 + 3 planes lost.
See
No. 295 Squadron -
Wikipedia and
295 Squadron
at Unit Histories. This Stirling
took off from RAF Rivenhall.
6 airmen.
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