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RAF aircraft's crash sites outside the borders: Germany

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Last update: 25/06/23

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the Heroes of Silence

* To the 540 Squadron *
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* Cemetery where rest the crew *

Crash site of Mosquito NS654
17/101944

aircraft
cest raf squadron
Unit: 540 Squadron
Aircraft: Mosquito
Code:NS654
Base: Benson
Mission: Photographic recce
Crew officer: F/O. G Bloomfield
Incident:Hit by German nightfighter

Location: Out Border: Steinfeld (D)

crash

Facts

Reportedly crashed Gut Steinfeld, Germany.
Shot down by an Me 262 flown by Fw. Seeling of Erprobungs Kommando Lärz at 13.45.
Crew originally buried Warnemunde New Cemetery, reinterred Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, as unknowns by the Americans. Then finally laid to rest Heverlee War Cemetery, Belgium.

Sources:
RAF Commands
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
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