Crash site for F/L G.A.Holland 20/21 April 1944

[David Pausey]

Looking for the crash site for F/L G.A.Holland and his navigator F/O W.H.Wilkinson in Mosquito VI NS928. They FTR from an intruder sortie to Rheine airfield Germany on the night of 20/21 April 1944. I had this info but seem to have lost it ! I belive that F/L G.A.Holland made a very damaging attack on 6/KG2 at Rheine in which they probably shot down 2 or 3 Ju188's but collided with one of them, they were both buried in the Reichwald Forest War Cemetery.

Regards
David

[FrankieS]

Hi Dave !

Here is everything you want to know:
http://www.flyingforyourlife.com/pilots/ww2/h/holland/

Everswinkel is here:
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.9267604...ch=everswinkel

The German names are written faulty though:

Spitterhover must read: Spitthöver
Gross Beckman must read: Grosse-Beckmann

Also, since the victims Spitthöver are mentioned on a
"Gedenktafel" at Everswinkel church, it would appear improbable that the Mosquito crashed 20 km (maybe 2 km?) to the north of Everswinkel.
The German phonebook doesn't list the above mentioned names
at Everswinkel today, but there is one Spitthöver at Ostbevern, which
would be about 15 km north to Everswinkel.

cheers,
Frankie

[David Pausey]

Thank you FrankieS thats brilliant

Regards

David