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Hi dear Friend

We just built a memorial to the crew of Lancaster ND 755 35th Squadron Wintzenbach fell in France on the night of October 19, 1944. I am looking for all info, photos and contact with families of the victims. The pilot was F / O  R. W. Brown. (DFC)

Thank you for your help
Lanc68



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I am in the process of developing a website detailing 35 Squadron's history, so I have all the relevant operational records etc.

If you would like me to help, please let me know and I will produce a consolidated document for you regarding the aircraft and the crew based on all the information that I have.

Regards

Pete

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Hi,

the details below are from Chorleys BCL 1944.

 

19-20 Oct 1944

35 Sqn          Lancaster III   ND755 TL-J          Op: Stuttgart

T/o 1756 from Graveley.  Crashed at Wintzenbach (Bas-Rhin),  5 km N of Seltz.  All are buried in Wintzenbach Protestant Cemetery.  At 37 F/S Phillips was over the average age of Bomber Command Aircrew.  F/S Kiely came from Mitchelstown, County Cork in the Irish Republic.  W/O Thompson had accompanied the crew as a second air bomber.

F/O  R W Brown DFC  RAAF    +

Sgt  C Johnson     +

P/O  J A C Clarke   DFC   +

F/S  R F J Bright   +

W/O  D Thompson  DFC   +

F/O  A Linton   DFC   +

F/S  F D T  Phillips   +

F/S  E J  Kiely    +

 

I cannot find any Luftwaffe claim for ND755.

You can find out more about the pilot on the Australian Archives website by doing a basic search using his service number 414768.

Regards,

Mike

 

 

 

 



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Thank you for your help.

The memorial will be inaugurated next October and I'm looking for the history of this aircraft and its crew. The village elders told us that the plane was flying at low altitude and was hit by flack that protected the city of Karlsruhe. The cyti is 20 km from Wintzenbach. Wintenbach Panneau cimetière texte rectifié.jpgIf you could help me and send me the information or pictures on the crew members would be wonderful. Contact me on my email address. I send you some pictures of the graves in the cemetery of Wintzenbach
thank you very much

Lanc68



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I note that Paul and Alan have contacted you via your message board with offers of help so to avoid duplication of effort I will stand down. If I can be of any help, please let me know.

Please keep me up to speed with progress as it will provide useful input into my 35 Squadron project.

Regards

Pete



-- Edited by PeteT on Sunday 2nd of March 2014 10:20:17 AM

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- No. 35 Squadron [From Thetford to Scampton]

 

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Hello all concerned in ND 755 history.

Sorry am not logged in properly but have just been advised of this post from one of your members ( think ) and would seek to stay involved.

My wife Margaret (now QUIRK), is the sister of Bob BROWN the Aussie Pilot of this craft and crew and we have , over the last few years been chasing down information from all possible sources to tie together all contacts we could amongst the surviving relatives and crew members ..... our first objective being a full narrative of their time together and a full understanding of the outcome.

From this network of emailed messages we achieved contact  with six families of the eight who went down in Wintzenbach and visited (again for Margaret) the town in late April last year. We also met with as many contacts as we reasonably could, visited Gravely and the PFF Museum and the new BC Memorial in Green Park London.

Our trip and information re the visit was well co-ordinated by two residents of the town who have similarly assisted others on such visits but I appear to have lost direct contact with then, only last week ( they are probably on holidays) in assisting Bob BROWN's nephew plan a visit. The townspeople from the Mayor down all have great respect for the graves and appreciate maintaining contact with visitors.

Our recent visit convinced us that our Memorial Narrative (which can be shared via 'Dropbox" or similar file sharing link) needed to be updated to cover our visit, it needed updating and other information has come to hand since ....... We met with the now elderly (then) 17 year old schoolboy who was early to the crash scene and who played a role in advising the RAF immediately after the War of the location, and having extracted all available information from the Aussie Archives, have now added to our knowledge base the small personal diary that Bob maintained until October 1944.

What we had not done until our return to Oz was consider further contact attempts with the Crew Families not found previously and also with contacts with the small number of stand-by crew members who had flown with Bob when they needed a seat filled at short notice.

I am assuming that this message will join those in this Forum, maybe this is the one I joined with a few years back and who gave me so much help.

We would love to assist from far away OZ and keep up with what you are aiming at. I am happy to share our direct email but better to see what can be attracted to this idea and all in first instance

Regards from Peter and Margaret QUIRK 

  



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Peter / Margaret

I would be interested in receiving a copy of your findings so that I can include them in my 35 Squadron history archives if that is OK.

Regards

PeteT

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- CA Butler and the loss of Lancaster ME334

- Aircrew Training WWII (Basic / Trade / Operational)

- No. 35 Squadron [From Thetford to Scampton]

 

[Always looking for COPIES of original documents / photographs etc relating to these subjects]



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Hi

You can contact an

Patrick Baumann

patjet@orange.fr



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Reply to Peter T and others,

Sorry for my lack of procedure but wish to advise that only way I can send you my file is via a Dropbox Invitation to "sharing the file".

It is in pdf format and about 27.1 meg.

Please just email me on the address below and I will fire up my Dropbox settings and invite you to download it and print as you require.

quirks@aapt.net.au

There is a need for me to upgrade the content following our trip to Wintzenbach last year and with new information that has come to light, but that will follow these more recent requests for sharing. The PFF Museum holds a copy (hard) and on CD, which will also have to be updated.

Thanks all,

Peter and Margaret (nee BROWN) QUIRK, Australia.



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Just came across this thread, if anyone is interested I have a photo of the Flight Engineer Colin Johnson sent to me a few years back by someone who was friends with Colin. The crew all served with 466 Squadron between April and June 1944. Would very much appreciate any photo's of the other crew members as we are trying to have a picture of all aircrew members that served in 466 and 462 Squadrons. John Dann halifaxlv827@yahoo.co.uk



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John

I would be interested in a copy of the photo; my e-mail address is available by clicking my name in the left hand corner of this post.

Does anyone know if the memorial is in situ and, if so, does anyone have ant photographs that I can include in the memorial section of the No. 35 Squadron website?

Regards

PeteT

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Researching:

- CA Butler and the loss of Lancaster ME334

- Aircrew Training WWII (Basic / Trade / Operational)

- No. 35 Squadron [From Thetford to Scampton]

 

[Always looking for COPIES of original documents / photographs etc relating to these subjects]



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www.aerosteles.net/steleen-wintzenbach-lancaster

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