Vickers Wellington Memorial Landsmeer
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The war memorial in Landsmeer was erected in memory of the six British airmen who died in the night of 28 to 29 September 1941. The names of the six victims are:W.R.J. Brown, A.W.M. Chapman, E. Fieldhouse, H. Mcl. MacDonald, J.S. Parry and I.J. Robertson.The Vickers-Wellington bomber of the British 99th Squadron was hit by German fire while returning from Genoa, after having successfully bombed the Italian city. After the plane was hit, the crew jumped out of the plane over the North Sea. All six crew members drowned. The plane flew on to the Landsmeerderveld and crashed there.
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•January 25, 2025
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