Collection type | Library |
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Author | Schurmann, Volker, author.; Uebbing, Bernhard, writer of foreword.; Foster, Charles, writer of biographies.; Buiting, Mitch, contributor.; Teloh, Jurgen, contributor.; Heimatverein Haldern e.V., issuer, sponsor.; |
Call Number | F 623.7463 S291 |
Document type | Monograph |
Year | [2016?] |
Pagination | 39 pages : photographs (chiefly black and white), portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 30 cm |
Publisher | Heimatverein Haldern e.V., |
Note | A nation must be ready to look soberly at its history. Only those who recognize what yesterday was can see what today is, and what tomorrow could be.--Willy Brandt. Foreword--Plane crash in Heeren-Herken--Biographies of the crew members, Norman Barlow DFC (pilot), Leslie Whillis (flight engineer), Alan Gillespie DFM (bomb aimer), Harvey Glinz (front gunner), Philip Burgess (navigator), Charles Williams DFC (wirelessoperator), Jack Liddell (rear gunner) With the words of the late Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Chancellor, Willy Brandt, let us remember the tragic story of the plane crash on the night of 16th to 17th of May 1943 in Heeren-Herken, in which the seven crew members of the British bomber of the Lancaster type III (Dambusters) met their death in our neighbourhood. The goal of their mission was to blow up the dams, but ultimately it was to end an increasingly senseless war that had brought much suffering throughout Europe. In this even, we want to remember today's friendly relationship between our countries, which were then enemies with the inauguration of this memorial stone. General. |
Place made | Heldern, Germany : |
Flight into uncertainty : the last flight of Lancaster AJ Easy ED927 / Bernhard Uebbing, Voler Schurmann, Charles Foster, Mitch Buiting and Jurgen Teloh. Lancaster AJ Easy ED 927. Flight into uncertainty : the last flight of Lancaster AJ Easy ED927.
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- Barlow, Norman, Flight Lieutenant DFC, Pilot of Lancaster AJ Easy ED 927, 1911-1943 Australian.
- Whillis, Samuel Leslie, Pilot Officer, Flight engineer of Lancaster AJ Easy ED 927, 1912-1943 British.
- Gillespie, Alan, Pilot Officer, Bomb aimer of Lancaster AJ Easy ED 927, 1922-1943 British.
- Glinz, Harvey, Flying Officer, Front gunner of Lancaster AJ Easy ED 927, 1922-1943 Canadian.
- Burgess, Philip Sidney, Flying Officer, Navigator of Lancaster AJ Easy ED 927, 1922-1943 British.
- Williams, Charles, Flying Officer, Wireless operator of Lancaster AJ Easy ED 927, 1909-1943 Australian.
- Liddell, Jack Robert George, Sergeant, Rear gunner of Lancaster AJ Easy ED 927, 1924-1943 British.
- Great Britain. Royal Air Force History.
- Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617 Biography.
- Genealogy - Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain - Biography.
- Fighter planes.
- Lancaster (Bomber)
- Aircraft accidents.
- Airplanes, Military.
- War Memorials - Haldern - Heeren-Herken.
- Dams - Germany - Ruhr (Region) - History - 20th century.
- Air pilots - Australia - History.
- Bibliographies.