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* Cemetery where rest the crew *

Crash site of Halifax MZ502-PT-U
28/05/1944

aircraft
cest raf squadron
Unit: 420 Squadron
Aircraft: Halifax
Code: MZ502-PT-U
Base: Tholthorpe
Mission: Leopoldsburg
Crew officer: Flying Officer E J Andrews
Incident: Shot down by German fighter

Location: (Prov. Limburg)

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Facts

Take off 23.34 Tholthorpe to bomb the militairy camp at Leopoldsburg (Belgium). Shot down by a night- fighter and crashed in open country 3 km SW of Overpelt (Limburg, Belgium) and roughly 5 km ESE of Lommel (Belgium). All were buried at St.Truiden, though their graves are now located in Heverlee War Cemetery.
F/S Mohler RCAF was an American from Excelsior Springs Missouri (USA).

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