Lancaster JB659 monument
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In Memoriam
On the 30th of january 1944, an allied Lancaster bomber JB 659 crashed at this site, which was then the farm of the van der Bijl family. Six members of the family and the seven crew members perished.
At precisely ten past five, on the afternoon of January 30th 1944, JB659 took off from Bourn airfield as part of a mass bombing raid on Berlin. The Lancaster was fuelled up for a possible 2000 mile round trip, and carried a bomb load of five two-thousand pounders, as well as marker flares. There were seven crew on board:
Pilot Officer Allan Robert Hart, 22, RAAF
WO.II Gordon Ivan Williams, 21, RCAF
Sgt. Leslie Clifton, 24, RAF(VR)
Sgt. Douglas F. Hicks, 24, RAF(VR)
Sgt. Williarn Joseph .Tones, 21, RAF(VR)
F/Sgt. Charles M. Price, 30, RCAF
F/Sgt. . Harold T. Boal, 20, RAAF
More info at: www.bourn.org.uk/jb659.htm
Here's a nice video too.
Lancaster JB659 monument
Intermezzo:
In Memoriam
On the 30th of january 1944, an allied Lancaster bomber JB 659 crashed at this site, which was then the farm of the van der Bijl family. Six members of the family and the seven crew members perished.
At precisely ten past five, on the afternoon of January 30th 1944, JB659 took off from Bourn airfield as part of a mass bombing raid on Berlin. The Lancaster was fuelled up for a possible 2000 mile round trip, and carried a bomb load of five two-thousand pounders, as well as marker flares. There were seven crew on board:
Pilot Officer Allan Robert Hart, 22, RAAF
WO.II Gordon Ivan Williams, 21, RCAF
Sgt. Leslie Clifton, 24, RAF(VR)
Sgt. Douglas F. Hicks, 24, RAF(VR)
Sgt. Williarn Joseph .Tones, 21, RAF(VR)
F/Sgt. Charles M. Price, 30, RCAF
F/Sgt. . Harold T. Boal, 20, RAAF
More info at: www.bourn.org.uk/jb659.htm
Here's a nice video too.