Den 13. august 1944 omkring kl. 02.00
nødlandede HAL MZ349 i Nordsøen på
tilbagevejen fra et bombetogt til Brunswick (Braunschweig
her).
Det brændte på grund af et angreb fra tysk side. (Kilde: Lost Bombers)
Mange flere end
de 152 fly nævnt i www.airmen.dk styrtede
i Nordsøen, men dette medtages i
www.airmen.dk fordi F/O Edmond T. Tunstall fra dette fly senere
blev
skyllet i land på Fanø (der er
her). Fra august 1944 var det en stående tysk ordre, at
omkomne flyvere skulle begraves "på stedet". Dette skete også med
E. T. Tunstall - og efter krigen var det umuligt at finde liget af ham igen! Han
har ingen kendt grav. Se mere på siden om
F/O E. T.
Tunstall.
F/O A. A. A. Bradley har ingen kendt grav. Sgt J. Gregory blev fundet
ilanddrevet den 4. september 1944, og han blev begravet i Tyskland. 4
flyvere blev
krigsfanger og blev sendt til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Sgt E. T. Boyes og Sgt I. P. Cundall blev sendt til Stalag Luft 7
Luckenwalde, mens F/Lt A. Hannay, Pilot
og
F/O R. A. McDonald blev sendt til Stalag Luft 3 Sagan. (Kilde: Lost
Bombers) Se foto af besætningen.
7 flyvere. Flere links i engelsk version.
On 13
August 1944 at about 02.00 hours
HAL MZ349
ditched into the North Sea on the return flight from a bombing raid on
Brunswick
(Braunschweig
here) - set
on fire by enemy action. (Source: Lost Bombers)
Many more than the 152 planes mentioned in
www.airmen.dk crashed into the North Sea,
but this is included in www.airmen.dk
because
F/O Edmond T. Tunstall
from this plane later was found washed ashore on the
island of Fanø (which is
here). From August 1944 it was a standing procedure
for the Germans that perished
airmen
were to be buried "on the spot".
This also happened to E. T. Tunstall - and after the war it was impossible
to find his body again! More on the page about F/O
E. T. Tunstall.
F/O A. A. A.
Bradley has no known grave. Sgt J. Gregory was found washed ashore on 4
September 1944 and he was buried in Germany. 4 airmen became
Prisoners of War and they were taken to German
POW-Camps.
Sgt E. T. Boyes and Sgt
I. P. Cundall were taken to
L7 Luckenwalde, while F/Lt
A. Hannay, Pilot
and
F/O R. A. McDonald
were taken to L 3
Sagan. (Source: Lost Bombers) See Crew Photo.
See
No. 51 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia *
The 51 Squadron Website *
Google Map 51 Squadron.
The
IBCC has details at the
end of the description of perished airmen.
Halifax
*
Halifax-BC
Museum.Canada
*
Halifax-RAF
Museum
*
Halifax-The
Yorkshire Air Museum.
See Halifax Print and
Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax III MZ349 MH-U
took off from RAF Snaith
at 21:09 on 12 AUG 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this +
Archive Report.) 7 airmen
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