Hello Rod, I am fascinated by the depth of understanding and the wealth of knowledge you apparently have on this subject. I am the grand-niece of the pilot of PB402, lost on January 16, 1945 on the Zeitz raid. I have visited the crash site and seen remnants of the plane. In July 2010 an unexploded 500 lb bomb was found and defused at the site.

I am attaching jpegs of the two page investigative report from February 1947. I would be very interested in your comments, especially in the 20 minute gap between explosions. I suppose the second explosion could have been a bomb exploding sometime after the crash. The bodies from PB402 were mostly in fairly good shape. A local we met at the site remembers the pilot still in his seat.