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

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. If 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

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 

  

Hi

You can contact an

Patrick Baumann

patjet@orange.fr

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