From last weeks Trip out to the Brown clee hill ,Shropshire With
Richy Curzon
to try to find the site of the crash of Junkers ju-88A , 8/KG1,V4+BS
which crashed on the 1st of April 1941 ,after becoming lost in poor
weather during a raid on Birmingham the bomber smashed a 250 yard swath
through the trees on the hill where the bomb load detonated totally
destroying the bomber with the sad loss of all 4 crew .
On the slope around Big Wood after a good zig zag down the hill Rich
Found this cross made of fence parts with a plate with a inscription in
memory of 4 comrades and a date of October 1940 ? this seems to be when
the Squadron changed from HE 111's to the JU-88 and one crew member
left the crew the bolt is an aircraft bolt but very difficult to make
out the stamps .
Crew lost =
Uffz Hans Ewald
Uffz H Prochnow
Uffz W Lehnhardt
Fw E Wels.
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