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Lancaster III ND625 crashed Sejrø Bay 10/4 1944.
The aircraft belonged to RAF 166 Sqn Bomber Command and was coded AS-S.
T/o 21:25 Kirmington. OP: Gardening Danzig bay.
Outbound ND625 was attacked by a German night fighter from 12./NJG 3 while
flying at 5500 metres altitude and crashed into the Sejrø Bay at 00:06 hours 10
kilometres SSE of Sejrø island lighthouse on position 55`50N 11`05E killing the
whole crew.
The night fighter was a Bf 110G-4 coded D5+AX with the crew of Hauptman Eduard
Schröder, Kaisig and Brusendorf. They had taken off from Fliegerhorst Westerland
at 23:10 hours and landed there again at 00:55 hours.
Mid upper gunner Sgt Henry W. Pound was found in the sea off the island of
Nexelø on 11/4 and was laid to rest in Kalundborg cemetery on 14/4 1944.
On 3/6 the dead body of W/op Sgt Kenneth Claugh was found in the Sejrø Bay north
of Nexelø island and brought to Kalundborg where it was laid to rest in
Kalundborg cemetery on 7/6 1944.
Flt.Engr. Sgt Fred G. Shields was washed ashore on Odden South Beach on 8/6 and
was laid to rest in Odden/Overby cemetery on 9/6 1944.
The body of P/O Percy J. Dunstan was found washed ashore on the beach of Lumsås
Forstrand on 14/6 and was laid to rest in Odden/Overby cemetery on 15/6 1944.
Navigator Wt/O John M. McCallum RCAF was found washed ashore not far from Yderby
on 12/5 and was laid to rest in Odden/Overby cemetery on the same day.
Bombardier F/Sgt Thomas R. Dunlop was laid to rest in Serjrø cemetery on 2/7
1944. His body was found on the Sejrø Eastern Reef the day before.
Rear gunner Sgt George E. Dyckhoff was washed ashore 13/7 near Ordrup and was
laid to rest in Faarevejle cemetery, probably the next day.
(Jens Fisker)
(Jens Fisker)
The graves of Bombardier F/Sgt Thomas R. Dunlop
and
Pilot F/O William C. Fairgrieve from Lancaster X KB751 17/8 1944
Sources: Flugbuck Schröder, FAF, UA, LBUK, Lighthouse administration, AS 9-218,
TW.
On the night of 9/10 April 1944
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