Well, Hold on! Credit where credit is due. I only said that Erich's describtion could not be matched.

I checked my volumes on Fliegerhorst Leeuwarden, but no reference to 30 Jan. 1944. However, Johan Schuurman writes in his book about airfield Bergen that Heinz Vinke also claimed two Lancasters this night. One (lancaster JB535 from 97 Sqn) at 22.12 (!) near Kolhorn, which is North of Haarlemmerliede and would be grid ref. EK. And the second one....well, no information is known...

I'll write a research contact who has this particular (roughly) area as his expertise and has been doing research for over 30 years. Maybe he can come up with something!

Martin, Do you know anything about the crash itself? Maybe a strange question but do you know if it hit a farmhouse and unfortunately killed several members of the family living there?? That happened, afaik also in Haarlemerliede....Very vaguely I remember something about that being in the news a couple of years ago when they dug up the Lanc. It might have been another a/c though.

[ 08. March 2004, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: Stevin Oudshoorn ]

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