Mosquito VI RF607 - Lomborg Updated: 23 JAN 2023
Airman | Surname | Init | Rank | Service | Sqdn | P_link | Plane | Operation | Crash_site | Crash_d | Buried_d | C_link | At_Next |
a092001.htm | Mackenzie | AGR | F/Sgt | RAF | 235 | p423.htm | MOS RF607 | Anti ship | Lomborg | d190445 | b160645 | c092.htm | Struer |
a092002.htm | Relfe | F A | F/Sgt | RAF | 235 | p423.htm | MOS RF607 | Anti ship | Lomborg | d190445 | b160645 | c092.htm | Struer |
"Under returflyvning fra en anti u-båds patrulje over Kattegat den 19. april 1945 blev et Mosquito fly ramt af tysk flak og nedstyrtede ved Lomborg. Et hårdt kvæstet besætningsmedlem, F. A. Relfe, døde samme aften på Lemvig Sygehus, mens piloten Mackenzie synes at være dræbt på stedet. Borgmester Aug. Nielsen, Lemvig, søgte om
tilladelse hos Værnemagten til at begrave ligene, men fik afslag. Senere gav
kommandanten på den Her blev flyverne i hemmelighed begravet af
tyskerne på deres soldaterkirkegård den 20. eller den 21. april 1945. Den 16.
juni 1945 blev flyvernes lig Se Lomborg, (her) nævnt som nedstyrtningssted
i FAF, og Hove, (her). Se Mosquito fotos og Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK. 2 flyvere.
On 19 April 1945 a Mosquito aircraft was
hit by German flak on the return flight from an anti submarine patrol in the
Kattegat and crashed at Lomborg. Mayor Aug. Nielsen, Lemvig, asked the Wehrmacht
for permission to bury the bodies, but his request was met with a rebuff. However, the commander
of the On 16 June 1945 the bodies of the airmen were transferred to the cemetery in Struer in a ceremony attended by many Danes from the area. (Source: FAF) See Lomborg, (here) mentioned as the crash site
in FAF, and Hove, (here). The hospital was in
Lemvig. |