piece of Lancaster (tail) for sale in Belgium

[dujardin]

helloooooo,

Check6 send me this information.
Marcel, there is a piece of Lancaster for sale in your village.
unbelievable.... but it's true.
part of the tail

see on this link

http://www.2ememain.be/collections/coll ... c_id=&afd=

byeeeeeeeee marcel

 

[Peter Graham]

Indeed it is. Can you translate the caption for us Marcel ?

 

[deeb7]

Désolé mais Marcel est endormi ....

• 
  During the night of August 13, 1944, a bomber of the RAF crashed in flames near the hamlet of Java.
  
  During the night of Saturday 12 to Sunday, August 13, 1944, there were around 22:30, a large portion of Allied bombers in the West-East DirAction. The alert was sounded and thousands of people occupied the forts. The return of the bombers in the opposite direction, or IS-West, took place around midnight. Most of the population again alerted still occupied forts.
  
  Around quarter past one (German summer hours) there was first a kind of red flare, then a burning aircraft which, after going down two laps in a spin, stuck and fell right in the direction of Andenne. Immediately after the fall that did not make much noise, a huge fire broke out. In the morning, we learned that the plane had fallen to Java (hamlet of Bas-Oha) in a sloping meadow.
  
  We learned at the same time as the tail of the aircraft was dropped from the other side of the Meuse to Gives "
  
  The Australian airmen are buried in the cemetery of Bas-Oha, a monument is erected to aiulleurs.

 

[rich]

It might be this then.......Lancaster (NE135)

http://www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=486

Shouldn't be sold, shouldn't be for sale.

 

[Andrew]

It surely looks like it- whole crew in one go. Very sad

 

[rich]

It surely looks like it- whole crew in one go. Very sad

They were a long way from home Andrew.

Wrong war, wrong service but the sentiment is right..............

'He whom this scroll commemorates was numbered among those who, at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom. Let those who come after see to it that his name is not forgotten.'

 

[dujardin]

Désolé mais Marcel est endormi ....

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  heuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ...yes :lol: :lol:
  
  
  thanks for the translation Deeb
  
  marcel