From: Nigel Hay (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 09:43:07 PDT
Folks , for your interest as I have had a few E Mails about it, I will get a
pic in next few days and those of you who want can look at the memorial
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From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Normady discovery
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas M McHugh" <tmmchugh@msn.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 4:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Normady discovery
>
>
> > I lost a Cousin in WWII. We thought he went down in the North Sea.
Only
> a
> > few years ago, his plane was found in Holland buried on a farm. The
> farmer
> > has now stated that he was told to bury it, but he never told anyone
after
> > the war, until now.
>
> Cool story. It's kind of a dimmer memory now, but when I was about 9 I
was
> over in England with my parents and stayed overnight at RAF Lindholm where
a
> friend of my parents was stationed. From what I remember they were
> discontinuing flying operations at the base and were converting it over to
a
> Radar Station. Dad was invited to go visit the command center that night
> where the privilege was deemed "not for kids", so I got to stay home, but
as
> they were getting ready to leave, I was still listening to their
> conversation through the door ajar in my room, and this guy was telling my
> father an interesting story.
>
> Turns out that when they were expanding the radar installation they needed
> to annex the land at the end of the old runway, which had been a fairly
mean
> and nasty swamp for decades. As they were draining the swamp, they came
> across a WWII bomber. Then another. I can't remember how many aircraft
> they eventually pulled out of the muck, but do remember that they still
had
> their crews in them, and that they were reported as "missing over the
> Channel" at the time. Seems they tried landing when Lindholm was socked
in
> with fog, overshot the runway, and wound up in the swamp instead. I
imagine
> the fog would have the effect of dampening the noise of the engines to any
> listeners on the ground, and in any event, anyone hearing but not seeing
the
> aircraft in the dark and fog would probably just assume the pilot was
either
> going around for another approach or diverting to another airfield. Wow.
> They "diverted" alright.
>
> (I've never looked into this as an adult, so I suppose our RAF Lindholm
host
> could've been playing it up - but I remember his voice being very
> matter-of-fact as though he were detailing some list of car repairs.)
>
>
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