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RAF aircraft's crash sites outside the borders: Belgium/Germany

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Last update: 25/06/23


Elegy to
the Heroes of Silence


* To the 550 Squadron *
* To the crew of PD255-BQ-T *
* To the monument erected in remembrance *
* Cemetery where rest the crew *

Crash site of Lancaster PD255-BQ-T
3/11/1944

aircraft
cest raf squadron
Unit: 550 Squadron
Aircraft: Lancaster
Code: PD225-BQ-T
Base: North Killingholme
Mission: Düsseldorf
Crew officer: F/L D. J. Foster
Incident:Hit by German nightfighter

Location: Border Belgium/Germany

crash

Facts

Took off from RAF North Killingholme at 16:16.

Claim by Fw Artur Jansen Stab I/NJG11 - 10km South of Dusseldorf: 4,500m at 19:31.
Fw Jansen wrote in his Leistungsbuch “Witness: Flak unit South of Dusseldorf, 2 attacks from below and behind, 1 in a dive from behind, aircraft spiralled down to starboard, witnesses crash fire”.
(Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten)

It is no specified cash location, but it can that the aircraft crashed near the border with Belgium; two Aircrews were buried in Heverlee War Cemetery, in Belgium, the rest of the crew remains in Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Source: Aviation Safety

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