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It is possible that the Halifax was shot down by Croats who were located there as a part of Flak Legion.My father, a Croat was AA 8.8 schwere FLAK gunner. I have his photo taken at a photo studio in the nearby town of Gladbeck in 1944. I found out that one of the defensive location of his unit was Kirchellen. Later on he was captured by the British forces at Hamburg in 1945 and was in POW camp for a while.He did not talk much about the war while he was alive. He died in 1987. I remember one of his war stories;namely that his 8,8 shot down an allied plane and that the pilot was keeping his plane airborne so long as to allow his comrades to bail out of the doomed plane.My father remembered seeing him wave his hand as a farewell to the others before he crashed.There could have been many of such stories...I am also trying to find out more about him and those years he spent in Luftwaffe in 1943-45.There were 4000-4500 Croats who were part of Flak Legion and maybe 1000 survived the war.They were trained in Wiener Neustadt and some were sent to the west front.