On October 13, 1941, a British Royal Air Force bomber, the Wellington MK 1c, X 9822 BL-J, crashed. The Wellington takes off at 19:26 on 12 October 1941, together with …

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Memorial to the crew of the Vickers Wellington X9822 BL-J. On 13 October 1941, a Royal Air Force bomber crashed at this location. After a cancelled attack on Bremen, the aircraft was shot down over Friesland by a German fighter plane. All crew members died in the crash.

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