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Old 30th July 2020, 21:29
Leendert Leendert is offline
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Re: Plt Off R Marcinkus 1 Sqn Crash Location 12 Feb 42

The Dutch airwar website https://db.wingstovictory.nl/pdf/584-story.pdf has the coastal border area between the Dutch province of Zeeland and the Belgian province of West-Flanders. This roughly means in the Cadzand (NL) - Knokke (BE) area.

It says a German Vorpostenrotte shot the Hurricane down and the a/c crashlanded in above mentioned area. Marcinkus POW but executed after the Great Escape in 1944.

The Vorpostenrotte VP1302/1303 that claimed the Hurricane speaks of "Quadrat 8755 AN Mitte oben", which I gathered is the southern main channel towards the Scheldt estuary, called Wielingen. But perhaps a map wizard can help you out here.

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Leendert

Last edited by Leendert; 30th July 2020 at 21:41. Reason: More detail of location
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