lancaster JB221

Linda Ralph and Kev35. Can you please contact me as soon as possible? I will explain as soon as I can get you on the phone, or e-mail. I will also send both of you a PM with my contact data. Thanks, Danny

This is great information. I feel that unknowingly this thread might have helped solve a 60+ year old mystery. Danny

I just read that since the end of WWII German EOD has defused 7500 bombs in Berlin alone and guess that another 3000 are lying around somewhere in Berlin city. By the way a German pound is 500 gramm and 1000 gramm equals a kilo. so in Germany 500kg is 1000lbs. Germans actually list the bomb as a 10 Zentner (one Zentner is 50kg) bomb. Danny

Here is the promised link:

http://wiesbaden.afneurope.net/Home/ArticleDisplayDD/tabid/652/Default.aspx?aid=12335

Hey I am glad I figured the internet out, don’t overwelm me now 😀

Hey all, I have to admit, we had very little problems with the MOD. We contacted their representative here in Germany, while the families contacted the MOD in the UK. What we were told is that if the local government, in our case it was the Buegermeister of Brandau, authorizes the recovery, then the MOD cannot prevent this as it is not on their soil. I think in the case of this aircraft, the families should maybe all unite and address the MOD together, while our Dutch friends contact Rijkswater or whoever else is responsible for this area and requests permission. It would be so much easier if the aircraft had crashed on land.

I am attaching the link to our attempted recovery of Lancaster JB221 and its four missing crew members. Sorry, but it is in German. Danny

Creaking, yes you are correct, Brandau is in the Modautal, it is just so darn small, that if you don’t slow down you went out the other side of town without even noticing.
I am still wondering how von Bonin was creditied with 3 kills and looking at date, there is a forth, or one that cannot be explained away. Danny