Mustang FB-138 crashlanding
 

Hello ,
Who crashlanded Mustang FB-138 from 129 Sqdn on September 28 1944 near Hulst in Belgium due to engine problems ?

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F/O A B Thomson

http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1944%20sec_tcm5-7285.pdf

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This incident was on 27/9/44 rather than 28/9/44.

Steve

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Thanks gentleman for the help

Alain

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Alain,

If mentioned on nimh.nl, then Hulst in Zeeland Province, Netherlands.

Regards,

Leendert

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Thanks Leenderdt

Alain

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Mustang belly landed in Saeftinghe after being hit by AAA near Antwerp.
Mission was to guide Halifaxes back home but pilot a/c was separated from flight. Losing coolant engine overheated.
Pilot ok but muddy and next day allready in Brussels.
regards
Sealander

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Gents,
The village of Saeftinghe is in Belgium. NIMH lists him E of Hulst what may have been the area "Verdronken land van Saeftinghe" what's in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen in the Dutch province Zeeland.
Henk.

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Thanks Henk

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Henk can you indicate where that village Saeftinghe in Belgium is located?

Hulst of course is (and never was) not in Belgium. But as the list of the NIMH claims the location "East of Hulst".... then confusion may be the consequence.

Tommy Thomson landed his FB136 DV-X Ten Km's due North East of Hulst,
on a strip of muddy soil, outside of the dikes, in the wetlands of the river Scheldt, locally known as "Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe" (drowned land
because the village was given back to the sea.)
Tommy by the way radioed his unit that he was OK but they were not sure whether he was in Allied or Enemy territory and left him on his own, neither did he know!
Today we should not have any confusion about the location or even the country where this took place.
Sealander

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The area "Verdronken land van Saeftinge" (not Saeftinghe) indeed is about 11 km NE from the centre of Hulst; the village Saeftinge (2 km W of the West Scheldt River) is about 12 km ENE of Hulst and about 4 km ENE of Kieldrecht.
Regards,
Henk.

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Sorry Henk,
if you travel ENE from Kieldrecht (in Belgium) then after some time you may find yourself in the village of Doel (still allways in Belgium) and indeed you may find there the remains of what once was Restaurant Saeftinghe, demolished in Jan 2009. This however is by far not the place where FB-138 landed but it may be a source of confusion about Saeftinghe.
Sealander