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Halifax JD371 KN-O Crash Site Memorial

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Halifax JD371 KN-O Crash Site Memorial

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Location: Modave, Huy, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

December 3, 2024

Inscriptions on the cross:

"IN MEMORIAM

HALIFAX

JD 371 KN-O

28 AOÛT

1943"

While returning from a mission over Nuremberg, Germany, the **Halifax JD371 KN-O** bomber of the 77th Squadron RAF was attacked by a German fighter and caught fire. Four crew members managed to parachute out, but one of them did not survive. The pilot, with great courage, steered the damaged aircraft away from the village to avoid disaster and it crashed in a meadow, sacrificing his life and that of the three other men on board.

At the crash site, a cross commemorates this event. Next to the cross, there is an explanatory sign with photos and text. An identical sign is located near a memorial just a few hundred meters away, next to the cemetery. This memorial honors the sacrifices and courage of the crew.

Source: bel-memorial.org/cities_liege_2/modave/modave_croix_crash_halifax.htm

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JakobusPilger

May 16, 2025

"God loves every soul with undying love. He reaches out to each one with repeated, unspeakably patient offers of salvation. Even a small sign of love is enough for Him to forgive and redeem. Our dear departed ones lacked a physical life preserver; but they did not lack the spiritual life preserver, the breath of God, in which the soul can clothe itself in a tiny instant, much faster than the body could."

(Text by Albino Luciani / Pope John Paul I)

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Location: Modave, Huy, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

Halifax JD371 KN-O Crash Site Memorial

1. View of Roche aux Corbeaux – Modave Castle loop from Modave

2. Modave Castle – View of Roche aux Corbeaux loop from Les Avins

3. Le Hoyoux River – Modave Castle loop from Modave

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