Stirling III LJ526 crashed Øster Skerninge
23/4-1944
The aircraft belonged to RAF 149 Sqn. Bomber Command and was coded OJ-P.
T/O 20:42 Lakenheath. OP: Gardening Radish (Fehmern Belt).
LJ526 was attacked by a German nightfighter believed to have been piloted by
Oberleutnant Herbert Koch of 12./NJG 3 and crashed in a field belonging to
“Hovgaarden” farm near Øster Skjerninge on the island of Fyn at 23:15 hours.
(Via Finn Buch)
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The whole crew which consisted of Pilot F/L Reginald J. Freeman, Navigator Sgt
David Hughes, Air Bomber F/S John M. Ronahan, Flt. Engr. Sgt Alan R. Redfearn,
W/OP F/S Raymond T. Walker, Air Gnr. Sgt Roderick H. Cameron and Air Gnr. Sgt Jack
L. Stean died.
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Rear: Cameron, Redfearn, Walker, Stean
Front: Hughes, Freeman, Downing
Downing was not on this trip
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Crew
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Air Gnr. Sgt Roderick H. Cameron
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W/OP F/S Raymond T. Walker
On 24/4 at 09:00 it was reported from the Civil Air Defence in Svendborg thet
five bodies had be found as well as a mine. The next day it was reported the the
Wehrmacht had defused and removed a total of five mines. On 8/5 it was reported
that the body of yet a flyer had been found during escavation of the wreck.
The Wehrmacht buried the bodies on the grounds of the “Dragonkasernen” barracks
in Svendborg.
After the war their remains were disinterred as well as those of two flyers who
had crashed in the sea off Vornæs on 15/2 1944 and a Danish resistance fighter.
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On 17/5 1945 they were transferred to Svendborg cemetery where they rest today.
(Geraldine Chase)
Sources: LBUK, Fyns Amts Avis (Newspaper), CWGC, FAF, FB.
23/24 April 1944
Stirling III LJ526 crashed Øster Skerninge
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