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Halifax II JD269 crashed north of Esbjerg 14/9-1943
The aircraft belonged to RAF 138 Sqn Bomber Command and was coded NF-Q.
T/o 18:04 Tempsford. OP:SOE to Neon 9 in Poland. Dropzone Pierzyna 206 near
Minsk.
Outbound while over Esbjerg the aircraft was hit by flak from 2./flak u.
sperrbattr. Femhøje ,3/flak u.sperrbattr.Fanø , 6/3.zug Saedding. 7/lei flakzug
Seehafen-nord fra M.flak A.204 and crashed at 21:40 hours near the railroad line
Esbjerg-Varde 6 kilometres north of Esbjerg killing all onboard.

(RM 45 III 315 via Carsten Petersen)

(RM 45 III 315 via Carsten Petersen)
Hauptmann Rose from Abwehrstelle Aarhus inspected the wreckage and found 180.000
US $ as well as sub machine guns, machine guns and a mortar with ammunition.
Furthermore he declared that there had been found eight crew members and two
civilians in the wreckage.
The crew consisted of Pilot F/Lt Angus J.M. Milne, Navigator F/O Ian MacLean DFC,
W/Op-Air Gnr. P/O Philip E. Rollins, Air Gnr. P/O Jack R. Scarles, Flt. Engr.
F/Sgt Frank Shuttleworth, Air Gnr. Sgt Edward J. Smyth and Air Bomber P/O Thomas
R. Wilson.
There were three Polish agents in the aircraft as well. They were Lt Wladyslaw
Siakiewicz "Mruk", Lt Kazimierz Lewko "Palec" and Lt Ryszard Kazimierz
Skowronski "Lechita".
All were laid to rest in Fovrfelt cemetery on 21/9 1943. One of the agents rest
as an unknown Pilot Officer W/Op – Air Gnr. while his two comrades were laid to
rest as unknown English saboteurs in the civilian part of the cemetery. The
civilian graves were deleted in 1963. In spring 2016 proper headstones were
erected for the three agents in the CWGC plot in Fourfeldt.
It should be mentioned that there have been erected grave stones carrying
the names of the agents in Poznan Allied Cemetery in Poland.









(Bob Cobley)
Sources: BE, RL 19/457, KT, AD, LBUK, AS 64-88, BCL, Mr. Kajatan Bieniecki
of Canada, Mrs. Betty Clements of England, T 501, Wojtek Matusiak.
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