Airwar over Denmark

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Lancaster III ED733 crashed at Jordrup on 29/4-1943.


The aircraft belonged to RAF 103 Sqn Bomber Command and was coded PM-X.
T/o 20:57 Elsham Wolds. OP: Gardening i Tangerine.


While westbound at 3500 metres the Lancaster was attacked by a German night fighter from 5./NJG 3 crewed by Oberleutnant Paul Szameitat, Oberleutnant Klöss and Feldwebel Blockus. At 03:51 the Lancaster exploded in the air and the wreckage fell to the ground on farmland belonging to the farms of Hovmosevej road 6 and 10, Jordrup. All onboard died.

On the same day sex crewmembers was found and by the Wehrmacht brought to the radar station “Fledermaus” at Fitting. On 2/5 it was reported that the last flyer had been found and taken to “Fledermaus”. They were all laid to rest in Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg on 7/5-1945.

They were: Pilot Sgt Arthur D. Nicholson, Bomb Aimer James C. Lilley, Air Gnr. F/O Thomas James Daley, Navigator F/O Leonard Meakin, Flt. Engr. Sgt George L.K. McCallum, Air Gnr. Sgt Maurice D. Peters and Air Gnr. Sgt Abraham Segal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All above pictures from Kolding Museum

 

Sources: CWGC, LBUK, RL 19/455+456, TW, BCL.

 

Minelaying on the night of 28/29 April 1943

Lancaster I W4898 crashed in the southern part of Kattegat 29/4-1943

Stirling III BK807 crashed in Langelands Belt on 29/4 1943

Wellington X HE395 crashed at Over Jersdal on 29/4 1943

Stirling I BF447 shot down near Vrønding on 29/4 1943

Stirling III BF467 crashed in Langelands Belt near Kappel on 29/4 1943

Stirling III BF515 shot down by Taagerup on 29/4 1943

Wellington X HE170 tried to crash land near Bjerndrup 29/4 1943

Wellington X HZ278 crashed Esbjerg on 29/4 1943

Lancaster I W4945 crashed 29/4 1943 at Remmerstrand

Stirling I EF356 shot down near Aadum on 29/4 1943

Lancaster III ED733 crashed at Jordrup on 29/4-1943

Stirling I serial number R9290 crashed in the Langelandsbælt near Vesternæs of Lolland 29/4 1943


 

 

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