swisseagle
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Hello all together
Unsure if this is the right place in the VAF-Forum ... but I think maybe a RV-Builder had a contact to people that where involved or know the story about ... but it is long time ago.
I was on a business trip to Germany ... Bebra was the name of the city where I had to visit a customer. This was in November 2018. Short before we finally got there, I have seen a sign: Fliegerdenkmal
OK, I thought, there must be something happen with a plane or so. But we do not had the time to go there, where working late into the evening. Weather was cold, dark ... not pleasing to go onto a hill, into the woods and look for something.
Today, we made this trip again, finished early with work and the weather was good. So my coworker Phillipe came with me to the place, where the sign was pointing:
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If you are interested to read more about that highest loss that any American bomber group ever suffered on a single mission, here is a link to the hole story:
https://www.ludwigsau.de/texte/seite.php?id=144422%20
All the photos I made you can find here (including all the name plates):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ooWm7VCJ92aeDfeG7
The story tells really a sad story what happen here ... RIP Airmen´s!
Unsure if this is the right place in the VAF-Forum ... but I think maybe a RV-Builder had a contact to people that where involved or know the story about ... but it is long time ago.
I was on a business trip to Germany ... Bebra was the name of the city where I had to visit a customer. This was in November 2018. Short before we finally got there, I have seen a sign: Fliegerdenkmal
OK, I thought, there must be something happen with a plane or so. But we do not had the time to go there, where working late into the evening. Weather was cold, dark ... not pleasing to go onto a hill, into the woods and look for something.
Today, we made this trip again, finished early with work and the weather was good. So my coworker Phillipe came with me to the place, where the sign was pointing:
If you are interested to read more about that highest loss that any American bomber group ever suffered on a single mission, here is a link to the hole story:
https://www.ludwigsau.de/texte/seite.php?id=144422%20
All the photos I made you can find here (including all the name plates):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ooWm7VCJ92aeDfeG7
The story tells really a sad story what happen here ... RIP Airmen´s!
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