Den 11. december 1941 styrtede
HAM AE148 ned i
forbindelse med en minelægningsoperation over
Kiel Bugt.
I Sanderum findes dette
monument fra 1949 nu
her.
Nedstyrtningsstedet var ca. 100 m vest for dette monument, hvor der i 1941 var en
mark. Nu er der huse. (Kilde: Bent Henriksen)
Alle ombordværende blev dræbt.
Tyskernes holdning til begravelse af flyvere skiftede i krigens løb!
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"Begravelsen af de 4 flyvere fandt sted den 15.
december 1941 kl. 10, som tysk militærbegravelse og under medvirken af en tysk
feltpræst.
Fra dansk side deltog borgmester I. V. Werner og politimester H. M. V. Seldorf,
mens den danske garnisonskommandant, oberst Mikkelsen, og ca. 30 danske
officerer og officianter, der var kommet uanmeldt til højtideligheden, på tysk
ordre måtte afmarchere, en snes minutter før begravelsen begyndte.
Bisættelsen
fandt sted fra kapellet, hvor de 4 kister henstod med en tysk æresvagt. Herfra
førtes kisterne til graven, båret af tyske soldater og med et tysk æreskompagni
i spidsen. Ved graven talte en tysk feltpræst, og efter at han havde foretaget
jordpåkastelsen, sænkedes kisterne under trommehvirvler og hornkoraler. Derpå
affyredes en æressalut over graven.
Efter tysk skik deltog derpå tyske officerer, de to danske embedsmænd og
byrådsmedlem, ingeniør Jørgen Christensen, i jordpåkastelsen.
Både
fra dansk og tysk side nedlagdes kranse med signerede bånd. Da
højtideligheden var forbi, fik den store menneskemængde, der på afstand havde
overværet begravelsen, adgang til kirkegården." (FAF)
5 dage senere skriver kirkegårdsinspektør
Askegaard:
"Ved vor nye krigergrav går en stadig strøm af mennesker med kranse og buketter,
de 4 "Tyskerkranse" bliver bestandig dækket til men tyskerne drager dem frem
hver dag igen." (Dagbogsblade Assistens kirkegården 1940-1943 krigergravene, af
Bent Henriksen & Erik Jensen, udgivet 1995) 4
flyvere.
On 11
December 1941
HAM AE148 crashed at Sanderum near Odense
in connection with a minelaying operation over the
Kiel Bay.
All on board were killed.
In Sanderum this monument
from 1949 is now
here,
about 100 m east of the crash site.
In 1941 it was in a field. Now there are houses. (Source: Bent Henriksen)
The German attitude to the burial of airmen changed during the war!
"On 15 December 1941 at 10 a.m. the burial of the
4 airmen took place as a German military burial carried out by a German army
chaplain.
Mayor I. V. Werner and Chief Constable H. M. V. Seldorf attended the ceremony
from the Danish side, while the Garrison Commander-in-Chief, Colonel Mikkelsen
and about 30 officers, who, unannounced, had come for the ceremony, were ordered
to leave by the Germans about 20 minutes before the start of the burial.
The ceremony started from the chapel of rest
where a German guard of honour stood at the 4 coffins. From here the coffins were
carried to the plot by German soldiers.
A German company of honour led the
procession. At the grave a German army chaplain made a funeral oration and
officiated at the graveside. Then the coffins were lowered to drum rolls and
horn chorales. Then a salute of honour was fired over the grave.
According to German custom the German officers,
the two Danish civil servants and engineer Jørgen
Christensen, member of the City Council, also sprinkled earth
on the graves. Inscribed wreaths were laid by
the Danish and the German side. The great crowd of people who had attended the burial
at a distance were allowed to
enter the cemetery after the ceremony." (Source:
FAF)
5 days later the inspector of cemeteries writes in his diary:
"There is a constant flow of people to our new soldiers' graves with wreaths and
bunches of flowers. The 4 wreaths from the Germans are continually covered, but
the Germans bring them out again every day."
See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons *
No. 408 (Goose)
Squadron RCAF *
408 "Goose" Squadron Association.
Hampden I AE148 EQ-B took off from
RAF Balderton at
1715 hrs on 11 DEC 1941. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this
+ Archive
Report.)
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