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Halifax V LL235 crashed in the sea off Traner Odde
23/4-1944.
The aircraft belonged to RAF 77 Sqn Bomber Command and was coded KN-L.
T/o 21:00 Elvington OP: Gardening the Baltic Sea off Rostock.
En route to the target area LL235 was attacked by a German night fighter piloted
by Hauptmann Werner Husemann of Stab I./ NJG 3 and a fire erupted.
At approx. 23:20 hours LL235 crashed into the sea 500 metres north east of
Traner Odde lighthouse.
Harris, Frankie, Armstrong, Tompson, John,
Redall, Harvey
Frankie and John were not on this trip.
Air Gnr. Sgt Douglas M. M. Harris managed to get out of the aircraft and landed
in the sea 200 metres from the coast.
His shout for help was heard by local people and a small boat was launched to
pick him up. He was taken ashore, dried and given some cognac.
An ambulance arrived to take him to the hospital in Sønderborg, but near Bro it
was stopped by the Wehrmacht and told to take him to the Sønderborg Barracks
instead.
From Sønderborg he was sent to Germany and prisoner of war camps. After
interrogation at Dulag Luft at Oberursel he was sent to Stalag Luft VI Heydekrug.
Later he was sent to Stalag Luft IV Gross Tychow. He returned to England at the
end of the war.
On 24/4 a deployed parachute was found among the wreckage and on 27/4 a body was
found to be connected to the chute. It was recovered and taken to the hospital
in Sønderborg where it by help of labels in the clothing was identified as being
Pilot F/Lt Edward (Ted) N. Thompson DFC. He was laid to rest in Aabenraa
cemetery on 1/5 1944.
On 31/5 at 17:30 the body of Air Gnr. Sgt Roy Redall was found washed ashore on
the beach near Himmark. The body was taken to the hospital in Sønderborg and was
laid to rest in Aabenraa cemetery on 6/6 1944.
Navigator F/O Gerald McClelland DFM was found washed ashore on Helnæs on 17/6.
He was laid to rest in Assens cemetery on 18/6 1944.
W/Op F/Sgt Frederick W. Harvey was found in the sea off Kidholm on 17/6 and was
laid to rest in Faaborg ny Assistenskirkegaard cemetery on 19/6 1944.
Flt. Engr. Sgt John Armstrong and Air Bomber F/O Alfred E. Robbins DFC have no
known graves and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Same persons as on upper picture with groundcrew
(Gunnar Hounsgaard)
Memorial stone next to the crashsite.
Aabenraa cemetery
Assens cemetery
( Finn Buch)
Fåborg cemetery
Sources : BCL, FAF, LBUK, AS 20-391.
23/24 April 1944
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