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Lancaster III ND960 crashed at Nakke on the island of Fyn
22/5 1944.
The aircraft belonged to RAF 57 Sqn Bomber Command and was coded DX-I.
T/o 21:57 East Kirkby. OP: Gardening Kiel Bay.
When having crossed the Jylland peninsula towards the target ND960 was attacked
by a German Bf 110G-4 night fighter of 10./NJG 3 while flying at 4300 metres.
The Bf 110 was coded D5+BV and was piloted by Leutnant Walter Briegleb with the
crew of Feldwebel Bräunlich and Feldwebel Brandt.
At 00:44 hours the Lancaster disintegrated in the air and the main part crashed
to the ground in a field belonging to “Skovgård“ farm, Nakke where one of the
mines onboard exploded. The whole crew perished.
(Rigsarkivet)
Wreckage
(Rigsarkivet)
Wreckage
10 minutes later one more mine exploded killing the Danish farmhand Jørgen
Andreas Brandt who had rushed to the crash site just after the aircraft had
fallen to the ground.
During the morning the body of Air Gnr. Sgt Harold De Gray Griffiths was found
500 metre from the crash site and in the same area was found the body of Rear
gunner Sgt Cyril J. Woodmass still inside his turret.
(Via Finn Buch)
Rear gunner Sgt Cyril J. Woodmass
(Rigsarkivet)
An unfortunate flyer
A number of human remains were found spread over several kilometres.
In the afternoon the Wehrmacht collected the two bodies and human remains found
in the area and buried them in Assens cemetery at 22:30 hours.
After the war they were identified as Pilot F/L Arthur T. Richards, Flt. Engr.
Sgt Arthur W. Bugden, Navigator F/O William T. Woodall RCAF, Air Bomber F/O
George Ferguson and W/Op Sgt Thomas Edwards.
Sources: Briegleb “Feindberührüngen”, TW, LBUK, AS 31-129, BCL.
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