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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Namur:
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Elegy to
the Heroes of Silence

* To the 405 Squadron *
* To the crew of DT487-LQ-M *
* To the monument erected in remembrance *
* Cemetery where rest the crew *

Crash site of Halifax DT487-LQ-M
3/09/1942

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cest raf squadron
Unit: 405 Squadron
Aircraft: Halifax
Code: DT487-LQ-M
Base: Topcliffe
Mission: Karlsruhe
Crew officer: Fl/Lt L.D. Hillier
Incident: Shot down by German fighter

Location: (Prov. Namur)

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Facts

akeoff at 22:28 hrs local time for an operation to Karlsruhe in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Kurt Martinek of the 9./NJG 4, who was flying a Bf 110 from Juvincourt airfield in France.

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The graves of the crewmen, into the War Cemetery of Hotton

Sources:

The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Aircrew Remembered
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