[Mary20]

Hello, I have found it very interesting to read all your contributions to this thread.
I have recently been looking at the relevant locations relating to the final mission of John L Seymour and Hugh Hay using Google maps and street view – Ford, Schiphol, Hoofdweg,Haarlemmermeer and Twente. I realised that the crash occurred the short distance of approx 1 mile from the hiding place of Anne Frank – famous diarist.
http://www.annefrank.org/
On looking at her entry on the 26th July it gives a very clear and moving account of the preceding hours air activity from breakfast 25th July ‘43 until the early hours of 26th July ‘43 . There is particular reference to midnight – the time at which the plane crashed.....
‘I can assure you that when I went to bed at nine, my legs were still shaking. At the stroke of midnight I woke up again: more planes! Dussel was undressing, but I took no notice and leapt up, wide awake, at the sound of the first shot’.
http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/happybirthdaypenguin/html/18.html
I saw on Google street view that there is a churchlike building close to where she was hiding and so may have heard it chime midnight. The plane came down very close to midnight.
Could anyone tell me how was the time of crash determined – was it local accounts, loss of radio contact or some by other means?
My mother, Mary, was John Seymour’s wife and widow.