Aage 1944 LAN NE144 * Bomben i Vorup        3 Krater         3 Crater                                Updated:  31 MAY 2026 

Uddrag af beretning fra Aage Højbak, 6 år i 1944, til AirmenDK
29. maj 2026: 

Afstand i fugleflugtslinje fra Holmsgårdsvej 7 til Kærgade 20 er 775 m.

”Det var en varm augustmorgen, da vores mor vækkede os, min storebror og mig, og med alvorlige miner meddelte os, at vi skulle på en lille udflugt.

Mor fortalte, at der i nattens løb var faldet en bombe i Vorup, ikke
langt fra, hvor vi boede på Holmsgårdsvej i Kristrup, begge forstæder
til Randers.

Mor viste os, hvordan en del ruder i nabohusene var knust af lufttrykket fra bomben.

Ruderne i vores hus havde overlevet fordi vi, på grund af varmen,
havde haft et par vinduer stående åben natten over. 

Snart stod vi ved åstedet, Kærgade i Vorup.
Jeg var lige fyldt seks år. Min bror, Poul Erik var otte. 

Det tydeligste billede for mig er bombekrateret, som vi stod lige ved siden af. Det så stort ud for en lille purk.

Krateret var halvt fyldt med vand og jeg husker ganske tydeligt, at der flød en bulet fløjtekedel rundt i vandet. 

Alt omkring krateret var kaos, men det er mere diffust i min erindring. Stemningen blandt folk var naturligvis alvorlig. Der var folk, som var døde og sårede.”  

Excerpt of account from Aage Højbak, 6 years old in 1944, to AirmenDK 
on  29 May 2026:

The distance from 7 Holmsgårdsvej to 20 Kærgade as the crow flies
is 775 m.

"It was a hot morning in August, when our mother woke up my big brother and me and with a serious expression told us that we had to go for a walk.

Mother told us that during the night a bomb had fallen in Vorup not far from where we lived in Holmsgårdsvej in Kristrup, both of them suburbs of Randers.

Mother showed us how a number of panes in the houses next to us had been broken by the air pressure from the bomb.

The panes in our house had survived because we due to the heat had had a couple of windows open through the night.

Soon we were at the site, Kærgade in Vorup. I was just 6 years old and my brother Poul Erik was 8 years old.

The clearest picture for me is the bomb crater right next to us. It looked big to a little fellow.

The crater was half filled up with water, and I clearly remember that
a whistling kettle with a dent was floating in the water.

Everything around the crater was chaos, but that is more blurred in my memory. Of course the mood of people at the site was serious. Some people were dead or injured."