I think a site exists for 152 Hyderabad sqn.
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Big site.Thank you
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following my own informations they are French , and it appears that the pilots were punished for the low pass .But it’s not sure
I’ll choose Jean OFFENBERG;
Rest in peace ,Sir.
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I am very proud that Leopold Heimes will attend this meeting .I know him very well and his self effacement was responsible of the fact that he was during a long time ignored by many people including (of course ) belgian authorities .
It’s beginning…
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Yes Adrian,
The count Rodolphe de Hemricourt de Grunne fought during the spanish civil war .Not with the Condor Legion but in the spanish nationalist air force (fiat CR 32).He claimed 14 biplane republican kills.He fought during the BoB and added 1 Me 109 destroyed ,1 damaged and 1 Do 17 shared destroyed .He was killed in action (with 609 Sqn ) on 21 may 41.Never recovered .
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here are the names of the men who bombed the bridges .The T number is aircraft number .To note there were only two men in the aircraft as they were three in a British one .
Veldwezelt bridge:
T 73 Capt Pierre Lt Cloquette
T 60 Adj Verbraeck Adj Dome
T 58 Adj Timmerman (+) 1st sergeant Rolin (+)
Vroenhoven bridge :
T 70 Capt Glorie (+) Lt Vandenbosch
T 64 Adj Binon Cpl Legand
T 61 Adj Delvigne (+) Sgt Moens (+)
Briedgen bridge
T 62 Adj Jordens Sgt de Ribaucourt
T 71 Adj Wieseler Adj de Coninck
T 68 Adj Vandevelds Cpl Bergmans
From the nine aircrafts only three came back to their airfield .
A little memorial exists at Vroenhoven with the names of the deads .
Each year,they were celebrated on the eleventh of may .
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Hello Allan,
thank you .The gallantry of those men is well deserved by your message.I’ll send the names of the Belgians who died during the desperate mission of the 11th of may.
Thank you guys for your replies. I’ll try to answer to some of your questions even if they aren’t complete.
My father war’s diary mentionned that,during his squadron’s retreat (5/III/3 Aé ),he heard that German’s troops were entering Brussel’s,the 17th.
He told to me (he is still alive,thanks to ? )that he couldn’t see the type of bombers because he was in a trench during the attack .The Belgian campaign ended the 28th,thus more than 10 days later.
My father was en enlisted man.He suffered,like many others,from hungry during the following years of occupation.He was ,two times,hostage of the Germans,draft evader (obligatory work ) and political prisoner.As we speak together about that,he always answers that many Belgians had suffered more than himself !It’s certainly true but I remain always amazed by such an attitude . I must say that ,meeting Belgian veterans of the RAF,their answers are very similar .
Regarding his squadron,a Battle squadron ,they suffered heavy losses the 11th when they bombed the bridges over the ‘Albert Canal”.
Is it possible to know if the llosses for the RAFare all above Belgian soil ?
One more time,thank you for your attention
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I have had the same impression as I was there with my son (15 ) .He asked me where are they ? It was not so easy to answer …
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You are right Mike J.But it’s his first book ”rendez-vous with fate ”.R Lallemant wrote two others ”Rendez-vous” (one day’s and with destiny) .Chapter over Amiens is in the third and his book is too new for having been translated .
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Hell a french doctor has made a book about this subject ,but I don’t remember the title now.I ‘ll search.And an actor of the bombing (he was typhoon pilot at the time),Raymond Lallemant wrote a chapter of his last book ”Rendez-vous avec le destin ” about the event.But ,sorry for you chap’s the two are in French …
The diving Stuka’s.So has my father always said when he was under their bombs…