Dette var et af 15 fly
mistet med tab af 69 liv +
3 fly mistet uden tab af liv, 5 af dem i
RKSK,
se
Google Map Rebild,
Mindetavlen i Rebild og
Rebild 2012.
Omkring 6500 containere med
omkring 700 tons våben,
sprængstoffer og mere fra
SOE
blev nedkastet til dansk modstandsbevægelse.
RAF udførte 284
og
USAAF 168 vellykkede nedkastninger over Danmark.
Modstandsbevægelsen blev bevæbnet og mindst 4.481 sabotageaktioner blev
udført.
Finn Buch har indhentet disse oplysninger i kort form, her som almindelig
tekst:
Natten mellem 2. og 3. april 1945 var
Stirling MK IV LK193 på operation SOE Tablejam 260
med containere, der skulle nedkastes i Danmark. Det forlod flybasen Shepherds
Grove kl. 2230, men styrtede ud for kysten ved
Sheringham kl. 2250!
(Ulykkesbeskrivelsen: "Flyet vides at have ramt havet og eksploderet ud for den
britiske kyst, nær Cromer. Det vides ikke om styrtet skyldtes en teknisk fejl."
Cromer er 6,5 km øst for
Sheringham. Flyet må være styrtet ned omkring
her.) Hele
besætningen døde med undtagelse af flyversergent Bennett, som senere døde af sine
kvæstelser den 2. juni 1945. CWGC bruger 3. april som dødsdato for
andre
besætningsmedlemmer, så den dato bruges også her som dato for nedstyrtningen. Se
også p437rMACR.
5 besætningsmedlemmer er begravet i en fællesgrav på
Cambridge City Cemetery, United Kingdom, også kaldet
Newmarket Road Cemetery, se fotos.
Flyversergent Bennett er
begravet på
Barwell Cemetery.
6 flyvere.
This was one of 15 planes
crashed with the loss of 69 lives
+ 3 planes lost without loss of lives, 5 of them on
RKSK,
see Google
Map Rebild, Rebild
2012 and the
Memorial Plaque in Rebild. About 6,500
containers with about 700 tons of
weapons, explosives, and more were
dropped to
the
Danish
resistance movement. The
RAF had 284 and the
USAAF
had 168 successful airdrops over Denmark. The resistance movement was armed and
there were at least 4,481 sabotage actions.
Finn Buch has obtained this information in a short version, here as plain
text:
During the night between 2 April and 3 April 1945
Stirling MK IV LK193 was on Operation SOE Tablejam 260
with containers to be dropped in Denmark. It left
Shepherds Grove Air Base at
2230 hrs, but crashed off the coast at
Sheringham at 2250 hrs! (Description
of Accident: "The aircraft is known to have struck the sea
and exploded off the
British Coast, near Cromer. Not known whether crash was due to a technical
defect." Cromer is 4 miles
east of Sheringham. The plane must have crashed about
here.) The whole crew
died except F/Sgt Bennett, who later died from his injuries 2 June 1945.
The CWGC uses the date of death 3 April for
other crewmembers, so that date
is also used here as date for the crash. See
Google Map Rebild with 15 + 3 planes lost. See also
p437rMACR.
6 airmen. 5 crewmembers are buried in a collective grave at
Cambridge City Cemetery, United Kingdom,
also called Newmarket Road Cemetery, see photos.
F/Sgt Bennett is buried in
Barwell Cemetery.
See No. 196
Squadron RAF -Wikipedia *196 Sqn at
Unit Histories. This
Stirling took off from
RAF Shepherds Grove.
Google Map Rebild. 6 flyvere.
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