This is a large aluminium airframe skin/stiffener section from the internal fuselage of the bomber.
This section still with some original green paintwork remains the panel has ripped and bent by the impact of the crash it has been very nicely cleaned and still retains a lot of its original colour and is a large size at 12 inches long by 3 inches wide. The panel comes with 2×A5 laminated information cards with many pictures.The part comes from RAF Lancaster bomber R5679 of 61 Squadron coded QR-O was lost on the night of 24/25 September 1942 while engaged on dropping magnetic mines in the shipping lanes of the Frisian Islands and the Baltic.
The bomber was Intercepted and shot down by Lt. Karl-Heinz Brandes (7./NJG2) at 02:13 on September 25 1942 and crashed near Grønhøj, Denmark. There were 23 sorties flown that night, and this was the only aircraft lost.
The whole crew perished in the crash. They were:
Sgt.L.W.Morrison
Sgt.C.N.Caldicott
Sgt.J.A.Duffield (RCAF)
Sgt.A.M.Cormack
Sgt.E.Dyson
Sgt.W.Y.Emerslund (RCAF)
Sgt.T.H.Bevan
They are all buried in the Frederikshavn Cemetery, Denmark.The Lancaster came down at 02.00hrs at Gronhoj, 15kms SW of Viberg. The aircraft exploded on impact.
In 1942, the 7th Staffel of Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 (7./NJG 2) was primarily operating the Junkers Ju 88 C-6b night fighter, which was a modified version of the Ju 88A-4 bomber.
This is a large aluminium airframe skin/stiffener section from the internal fuselage of the bomber.
This section still with some original green paintwork remains the panel has ripped and bent by the impact of the crash it has been very nicely cleaned and still retains a lot of its original colour and is a large size at 12 inches long by 3 inches wide. The panel comes with 2×A5 laminated information cards with many pictures.The part comes from RAF Lancaster bomber R5679 of 61 Squadron coded QR-O was lost on the night of 24/25 September 1942 while engaged on dropping magnetic mines in the shipping lanes of the Frisian Islands and the Baltic.
The bomber was Intercepted and shot down by Lt. Karl-Heinz Brandes (7./NJG2) at 02:13 on September 25 1942 and crashed near Grønhøj, Denmark. There were 23 sorties flown that night, and this was the only aircraft lost.
The whole crew perished in the crash. They were:
Sgt.L.W.Morrison
Sgt.C.N.Caldicott
Sgt.J.A.Duffield (RCAF)
Sgt.A.M.Cormack
Sgt.E.Dyson
Sgt.W.Y.Emerslund (RCAF)
Sgt.T.H.Bevan
They are all buried in the Frederikshavn Cemetery, Denmark.The Lancaster came down at 02.00hrs at Gronhoj, 15kms SW of Viberg. The aircraft exploded on impact.
In 1942, the 7th Staffel of Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 (7./NJG 2) was primarily operating the Junkers Ju 88 C-6b night fighter, which was a modified version of the Ju 88A-4 bomber.
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