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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Limburg:
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Last update: 25/06/23


Elegy to
the Heroes of Silence


* To the 75 Squadron *
* To the crew of ME690-AA-Z *
* To the monument erected in remembrance *
* Cemetery where rest the crew *

Crash site of Lancaster ME690-AA-Z
25/05/1944

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cest raf squadron
Unit: 75 Squadron
Aircraft: Lancaster
Code: ME690-AA-Z
Base: Mepal
Mission: Dortmund
Crew officer: P/O Burke E L
Incident: Shot down by German fighter

Location: (Prov. Limburg)

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Facts

Takeoff at 22:49 hrs for a bombing operation against Dortmund in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was claimed shot down by Oberleutnant Werner Baake of the 2./NJG 1 (flying He 219 A-0 G9+RK from Venlo airfield, the Netherlands) and by Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1 (flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Sint-Truiden airfield).
There were no survivors amongst the crew; all rest in the Heverlee War Cemetery at Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant.

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Sources:
Aviation Safety
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Aircrew Remembered
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