Frank Hoyland Updated: 07 MAR 2022
Airman: o888496.htm Surname: Hoyland Init: F 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
"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 "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 S.H.Butcher was interned in Camps L3 / L6 / 357. PoW No.37 with Sgt F.Hoyland, PoW No.59, Sgt A.T.Lewis, PoW No.69, Sgt J.E.Sloane, PoW No.91 and Sgt J.A.Jerman, PoW No.61." (Lost Bombers) See
No. 149 Squadron
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