Alexander Lauriston Updated: 07 MAR 2022
Airman: o888495.htm Surname: Lauriston Init: A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 149
P_link: p084.htm Plane: STI N3752 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Rise near Aabenraa
Crash_d: d180542 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
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 "På et minelægningstogt til »Forget-me-not« (Kiel 
Bugt) natten mellem 17. og 18. maj 1942 mavelandede Stirling N3752 0 fra 149 
Sqdn. ved Rise, nordøst for Åbenrå. Mavelandingen skyldtes ikke tyske 
afværgeforanstaltninger, men en defekt højdemåler. Flyet fløj så lavt, at det 
ramte jorden. Besætningen Flight Sgt. Jerman,  
 
"On a minelaying operation to "Forget-me-not" 
(Kiel Bay) on 17 - 18 May 1942, Stirling N3752 0 of 149 Sqdn. belly-landed by 
Rise, northeast of Åbenrå. This misfortune owed nothing to German defensive 
action, but was due to a defective altimeter. Stirling 0 was flying so low that 
it brushed a hill. F/S Jerman, F/S Butcher,  "Airborne 2210 17May42 from Lakenheath for mining operations in The Sound (Daffodils area). Crashed 0115, while flying low, onto a hillside near Rise, on the SE outskirts of Rodkro, Denmark." (Lost Bombers) "Sgt A.Lauriston was interned in Camps
8B/344, PoW No.24981. 
Exchanged ID and escaped and was never discovered by the enemy. Liberated by US 
Army  See
No. 149 Squadron 
RAF - Wikipedia * 
Stirling  * p084MACR with details.  |