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Re: Question For Cees re: Holland
Posted by Paul McMillan on Sun Oct 14, 2001 03:17:24 PM
In reply top Re: Question For Cees re: Holland posted by H J Strating on Fri Oct 12, 2001 03:22:47 PM
Typhoon Ib RB321 OV-A of 197 Sqn. Flown by an Australian Sqn/Ldr A H Smith DFC (and bar). Hit by flak and forcelanded on an ice covered lake 2 miles south west of Culemborg on 31 December 1944. The pilot became a POW
Seeing this was a day before Bodenplatte, prehasp the Germans and the Brits had more on their mind that recovery of the aircraft..