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Re: Identify Wellington Bomber
Indeed. Superb book by the way! Thanks for mentioning. That's where I have most of the information from. I have also some local eyewitness stories. But no details of the Wellington's serial or crewmembers names. No mentioning in Bomber Command Losses neither.
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Re: Identify Wellington Bomber
Hello,
This Wellington incident sounds very much like the following loss mentioned in 2TAF3/432 24 February 1945 No.69 Sqn. Wellington XIII NC604 Op: Visual recce, read Wassenberg - Maasniel T/o. 2115 Shot down (e.2210) by Af (?)*, north-east of Hasselt. Sgt W. H. Marshall + Sgt J . C. Monaghan + Sgt W. E. Davies + Sgt L. Larkin Sgt W. E. Reading (ORB quotes surname as Readman) * The authors quote this abbreviation as; Af = Airfield. The timing, location and casualties seem to match the aforementioned incident. Date is a bit of a worry. Any thoughts? Col. Last edited by Col Bruggy; 17th June 2019 at 08:27. |
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Re: Identify Wellington Bomber
Col, I think it is the same incident, I think the book has the wrong date. There is a write up here (in Dutch and French) about Friendly Fire incidents, see page 10 and following) on NC-604:
http://www.dakota15wing.be/Dakota%20...39%20Digit.pdf (You can Copy/Paste the related paragraphs into Google Translate to get a reasonable English version.) The last paragraph translates as: "Sergeant Marshall was 24, Sergeant Monoghan 21 years. The age of Davies is unknown to us. The Wellington NC-604 crashed near Waterschei not far from Liège. The three crew members were also buried in Evere just beside Flying Officer Tinker and his crew as well as many others from 69 Squadron and his "Service Echelon 6069" which gave their lives during the period when the 69th operated in Melsbroek from from September 44 shortly after the liberation of Belgium." Last edited by RSwank; 19th June 2019 at 03:11. |
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Re: Identify Wellington Bomber
Hi guys, a very big thank you for this superb information on behalve of the whole research group! The location of the NC604 crash is: 50°59'38.623"N 05°31'15.686"E
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