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Yet another 617 Sqn Lancaster
Posted by Cees on Thu Apr 25, 2002 10:02:35 AM
In reply top Re: Another 617 Sqn Lancaster posted by Richard Woods on Thu Apr 25, 2002 06:17:20 AM
There is yet another 617 Lanc that is being investigated. We have been trying for years to find the location where Dinghy Youngs lanc crashed near the Dutch coast. The wreck consisting of the centre section of the fuselage and the complete wing was later washed ashore and stayed there till 1953 after which it was submerged under the beach. There is a famous photograph of it in one of the Lancaster at War books. The area is so large that we haven't found it yet, but an eye witness told us that in the lated sixties he had seen an aluminium construction of which he thought it was a wing under the sand.
Cees