Kolding Folkeblad 19 JAN 1943       29 JAN 2017


Avisudklip fra Kolding Folkeblad om HAL W7886 fra Lene Majlandt.

Press cutting about HAL W7886 from Lene Majlandt.

  A 4-engined English bomber with 7 men
 shot down in Sdr. Stenderup

 During the latest air raid warning on Sunday evening a big 4-engined English  
 bomber with a crew of 7 men was shot down near Mørkholtgaard east of Sdr.      
 Stenderup, apparently hit during an aerial battle. Farmer Juhl, who lives at   
 Mørkholtgaard, was walking on the nearby road, when he heard the big plane
 rushing down towards him with all four engines at full blast. He was at a loss
 to which side he could jump for cover - and next moment the big plane had   
 crashed into the ground. He saw a spurt of flame bursting at the crash.

 Apparently the crew had managed to bail out. The first member of the crew to be  
 found was a Squadron Leader, who turned up in Sdr. Stenderup Skovridergaard 
 ("forester's farm") from where he was fetched shortly after.

 He was at the start of his twenties and had only got a small scratch. Later three  
 more of the crew have been found alive, one of them near Middelfart, wounded.
 On Sunday night at about 1 p.m. the Falck Fire Brigade was called to the
 crashed plane, as the fire had spread to the fuel which had run out of the fuel 
 tanks and had drenched the soil. The fire might have spread to the forest, and 
 Falck had considerable difficulty extinguishing the fire.

 Also bombs near Haderslev

 This is another story.