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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Antwerpen:
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Crash site of Blenheim T2225-UX
10/12/1940

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Unit: 82 Squadron
Aircraft: Blenheim
Code: T2225-UX
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Mission:
Crew officer: McMURRAY, FREDERICK WILLIAM
Incident: Shot down by German fighter

Location: (Prov. Antwerpen)

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Facts

In the night of December 10, a Bristol Blenheim IV from the 82ste squadron will be taken down to the Ekerse Dijk. The plane, which was on fire, dropped its bombs in the Blankenberg meadow near the Ekerse Dijk and the Schriek.
The aircraft is to be found in a better place (between hof de Bist and the Verbist farm in the Biststraat.(?))
The plane, With code UX-T2225, it was earlier that night that the port of Antwerp was taken off in the town of Bodney.
The 3 occupants were killed in the incident and buried in the Schoonselhof Cemetery

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The wrekage of the Blenheim T2225 (Pictures: wereldoorlog2inekeren.com)

Sources:

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