1944 RAF loss Beckum (Germany)
 

Dear all,



in a short german newspaper clip (Glocke, 1998)



http://www.heimatverein-beckum.de/fi...a%20meldet.pdf


it is stated that in 1944 a RAF a/c was downed 2.6 miles east/north-east to the city of D-59269 Beckum at location 'Flimmerberg' near 'Stromberger Strasse' road.



https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fl...er=0&entry=ttu


The author states that he remembers the "pilot's"' coffin at the
hospital morgue.


Any hints to which RAF a/c was downed near Beckum ?


22/23.03.1944 Lancaster ND672 RAF 49 Sqn EA-U
seems a possibility. However, this one crashed at 'Keitlinghausen'
almost 2 more miles north-east from 'Flimmerberg'.





thank you kindly !


FrankieS

Re: 1944 RAF loss Beckum (Germany)
 

http://www.heimatverein-beckum.de/fi...r%20Spitze.pdf


states that the rear gunner was the one fallen airman funeral-serviced at Beckum hospital morgue,
so it was not a single crew a/c.


(rear gunner of Lancaster ND672 was F/S J.N.E. Bennett RCAF A/G


https://www.49squadron.co.uk/personn...ail/Bennett_J2

and he was also the only KIA identified at the times and buried in the
city cemetery of Beckum, not as the unidentified KIA buried at the crash
scene)