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Lancaster I ED305 crashed into Lille Bælt near Lyngsodde 10/3-1943.
The aircraft belonged to RAF 44 Sqn. Bomber Command and was coded KM-S.
T/O Waddington. OP: Gardening Willows.
When flying at 4500 metres the Lancaster was attacked by a German night fighter
from 5./NJG 3 piloted by Oberleutnant Gerhardt Raht.
At 22:13 hours the Lancaster crashed into the Lille Bælt near Lyngsodde in 20
metres of water. It fell 2 kilometres from Middelfart and 50 metres from the
bridge across Lille Bælt.
The crew consisting of Pilot Sgt Brian T.C. Smith,
Flt.Engr Sgt Gordon R. Black RCAF, Navigator F/O Robert H. Carr, Air Bomber Sgt
Charles H.D. Cook, Wop Sgt Geoffrey S. Love, Air Gnr.Sgt Charles V. Brown, Air Gnr.
Alfred Healey have no known graves and are commemorated on the Runnymede
Memorial.
In the next days different wreckage and some body parts drifted ashore between
Middelfart and Strib. Among these was a flying helmet with a name written in it
which years later made it possible to identify the aircraft.
Sources: LBUK, RL 19/455, Theo Boiten, Holland, Directorate of Lighthouses.
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