Category Archives: Recovery
Lancaster ME737
LANCASTER ME737 630 SQUADRON LE-S 11/12 MAY 1944 On the 11th May the Lancaster, based at East Kirkby, took off at 22.28 hours on a mission to bomb marshalling at Bourg Leopold (Belgium). According to reports … Continue reading
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Halifax JN920
HALIFAX JN920 51 SQUADRON LK-L 22/23 OCTOBER 1943 RAF Snaith ,22 October 1943,17.55 hours the Halifax JN920 takes of to bomb the industrial town of Kassel Hit by flak over Holland the crippled plane burning violently. … Continue reading
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Halifax HR839
HALIFAX HR839 51 SQUADRON LK-L 28/29 JUNE 1943 Shot down by Night Fighter Lt. Gunther Franz 5.NJG1. on the return from a bombing mission to Cologne at about 02.23 h. The plane crashed close to Olen … Continue reading
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The Crew Of the Lancaster ME737
From left to rigtht : Sgt. Rowthorne – Sgt. Prettejones (replaced on 11-12 May by Sgt. Witham) – F/Sgt. Stuart – P/O Watt – Sgt Amies – Sgt. Thompson – Sgt. Grant . This photo was taken at … Continue reading
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An E-mail from Mike Luce, son of Wendell Luce Bombardier (POW)
My father is standing in the second row on the far left. I have attached another file of him, taken when he was an aviation cadet. The plane in the photograph is not the one that this crew was … Continue reading
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B17 – Patches Crew
The pilot who shot “Patches” down : 1st Lieut. Adolph Gluntz (Addi) – JG-26-7 (Knights Cross & Oak Leaves) He had 71 victory’s of which 21 were on 4 engined bombers. He flew a FW-190 B17 “Patches” Constructer Boeing … Continue reading
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Report about the recovery B-17 Patches
After a co-worker of mine (Michel Truszkowski) started talking with his neigbour, World War 2 came up. The neighbour reminded when he was a little kid, a plane carsh in Testelt on 17/08/1943. This happend on 500 meters of his … Continue reading
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