Dornier DO17 Crash Photo

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Luc Vervoort

Hi Nick,

Rue Verte (= Groentestraat in Dutch ) – Rue du Val (= Dalstraat in Dutch )

Rue du Val

Rue du Sapin Vert (= Groene Denstraat in Dutch)

Luc

And in English: Green Street, Valley Road and Green Pine Road!

[Luc Vervoort]

Hi Nick,

Belgium is a small but complicated country regarding names with 3 official languages : Dutch (which some people call Flamish, which is not correct), French and German. E.g. Liège (in French) = Luik (in Dutch) = Lüttich (in German); Leuven (in Dutch) = Louvain (in French) and Löwen (in German). Mouscron (= Moeskroen in Dutch) is a town with language facilities. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munici...age_facilities

Best regards

Luc

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Luc Vervoort

Hi Nick,

Belgium is a small but complicated country regarding names with 3 official languages

Luc

I know, I've been to Brussels and seen the destination indicators on the buses switching between two languages and on the train to Antwerp with the destination sign changing halfway through the journey from French first to Dutch first.

[Peter T]

It's rue Verte = Groenstraat.
PT

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Just for curiosity...the sortie involved low level photography or high level reconaissance?
It looks like the pilot, if wounded or mortally wounded, did not tried to belly land...the machine simply lost control (it seems from low level, circa 100-300 feet) and just went into the house, losing both wings on the impact. It did not blew up, so was either holed and lost fuel, maybe returning back home.

[Leendert]

Go to pages 4-7 on following link for a detailed map and local history of this Do-17 crash (in French): https://www.cartafana.be/publication...45_04-2010.pdf

(It appears that some street names have changed, hence some confusion?)

Regards,
Leendert

[Luc Vervoort]

Hello Leendert,

Many thanks for the link to the Canard Tafana Revue and a solution of the problem with the streetnames.

According to Canard Tafana revue dated April 2010 the streets were renamed : Rue Verte became Rue Guillaume Vanzeveren (location of the crash), Rue du Val became Rue de la Crolière (location of the graves)

The article in this publication (based on research done by D.Vandenbroucke,published in “Mémoires de la société d’Histoire de Mouscron et de la Région, tome IV”) mentions that the aircraft was shot down by British flak (situated near Rue du Bilemont) . Two airmen baled out of the plane, but as it as flying very low the chutes didn’t open. The two other died in the crashing plane.

When checking with Google maps one can still find a street called Rue Verte (= Groenestraat) , Rue Guillaume Vanzeveren, Rue du Val (= Dalstraat) and Rue de la Crolière.

Also checked “De Rouck – Toutes les rues de Wallonie et Bruxelles” (published in 1996) and it mentions : Rue Verte (in Luingne), Rue Guillaume Vanzeveren (in Mouscron), Rue du Val (in Mouscron) and Rue de la Crolière (in Luingne).

To be continued …

Best regards

Luc

[TigerTimon]

Nice thread. Would the house numbers still be the same I wonder.