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Old 14th June 2014, 14:29
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Re: The blue PRU Spitfire PR.XI shot down Nijmegen 20 Sept1944

Thank you gentlemen. Yes, I've used 'PRU' in error here. 16 Squadron was part of 34Wg 2TAF on 20th Sept 1944. An eyewitness Nicolaas Lambrechtsen talks of 'a Spitfire which had been shot' nearly crashing into the back of his house at 14 Kerkstraat, Hees shortly before it actually crashed in the vicinity of the Petruskerk, Hees (link)…

http://www.netherlandsfoundation.org...-lambrechtsen/

(Warning: the statement 'Three Dutch civilians also died in that crash' may well be unsupported, and result from the conflation of this crash with another (see lower down))
(Warning: the date is incorrectly given, and is revised here) (link)…

http://www.netherlandsfoundation.org...-william-cain/

Article on this incident (in Dutch) (link)…

http://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/g...beurtenisID=13

(Warning: the picture is incorrect, and has a Spitfire of the wrong model and colour)
(Warning: the link to the pilot gives the wrong model Spitfire and gives 'Neerbosch' when Hees is much more likely)
(Warning: the SGLO Verlieslijst v6 contains at least one known and one probable error)
(Warning: the Arjen W. Kuiken reference (again in Dutch, under 'Reactie 2') conflates the Spitfire crash with the Mitchell crash in the same area on the 25th)

There are still a lot of cobwebs to be cleared away…!
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