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Lancaster I LL950 crashed Vesterlund 22/5 1944.
The aircraft belonged to RAF 630 Sqn Bomber Command and was coded LE-Y.
T/o 22:18 East Kirby. OP: Gardening Forget-Me-Not (Kiel Bay)
The Lancaster was flying at 4700 metres over the Jylland peninsula when it was
attacked by a German night fighter from 10./NJG 3 piloted by Unteroffizier Heinz
Koppe.
The Lancaster exploded in the air and crashed at 02:00 hours just south of the
railroad line west of the small village of Vesterlund.
A large part of the fuselage fell to the ground some five kilometres away a
little to the east of the village of Dørken.
In the wreckage near Vesterlund were found four bodies and in the wreckage east
of Dørken were found two bodies. A third body with an unopened parachute was
found in a nearby field.
The dead flyers were left lying where they were found until the evening of 24/6
when the Wehrmacht from Give collected the bodies and took them to Esbjerg where
they were laid to rest in Fovrfelt cemetery on 27/5 1944.
They were: Pilot P/O Ronald W. Baily, Flt. Engr. P/O Jack M. Whiting, Navigator
F/S Charles H. Richardson, Navigator F/S James M. Henderson, W/Op F/O Albert E.
Truesdale, Air Gnr. Sgt James Lindsay and Air Gnr. Sgt Martin E. Murton.
(David Whiting)
Flt. Engr. P/O Jack M. Whiting
(David Whiting)
Flt. Engr. P/O Jack M. Whiting
(Erik Jensen)
At the crashsite.
(Ib Lødsen)
Sources: BE, LBUK, Report Vejle police, TW.
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