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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Liege:
Froidthier

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Last update: 25/06/23


Elegy to
the Heroes of Silence


* To the 75 Squadron *
* To the crew of BK817-AA-B *
* To the monument erected in remembrance *
* Cemetery where rest the crew *

Crash site of Stirling BK817-AA-B
12/06/1943

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Unit: 75 Squadron
Aircraft: Stirling
Code: BK817-AA-B
Base: Newmarket
Mission: Düsseldorf
Crew officer: Squad. Leader LAUD, RONALD HUGH
Incident: Shot down by German fighter

Location: (Prov. Liege)

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Facts

Took off from Newmarket at 23:48 hours from Newmarket. Shot down by a night fighter over Belgium, piloted by Oblt. Wilhelm Telge, and crashed at 01:35 hours at Frodthier (Liege), 10 km north of Verviers, Belgium. The rear gunner was the only survivor, and became a PoW.
Those killed were at first buried at St Trond, about 50 km WNW of the crash site, but are now buried in Heverlee War Cemetery.

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Those pictures show the weckrage of Stirling BK 817

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Few years later, parts of the plane where found

Sources:
75 Squadron Remembered
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Aircrew Remembered
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