Easy Prey | Crash of an English Short Stirling in the Netherlands
… The gunner on the Short Stirling does not know what makes him more nervous, the fact that he’s getting married this month or the...
Read MoreUntil the Bitter End | Crash of an English Halifax in 1943
… The silence is deafening. Farmer’s Halifax has just been drilled by bullets coming from two German night fighters. Then the...
Read MoreVictim of the Abbeville Boys | Crash of a B-17 in the Netherlands in 1944
… All bombers are focused on the bomb load of Colonel Robinson’s leading aircraft. When Captain Silverstein, bomb aimer in the...
Read MoreIt's Raining Messerschmitts | Crash of Six German Messerschmitts in the Netherlands
… The Messerschmitts have barely come through the clouds when they are mercilessly attacked by American Thunderbolts....
Read MoreThunderbolts at Noon | Crash of two American P-47 Thunderbolts in the Netherlands
… Colonel Richard A. Hewitt sees the German fighters coming out of the clouds and sees how his roommate Vernon Y. Jones immediately...
Read MoreA High Price for an Effective Mission | Crash of an English Lancaster in the Netherlands
… The warden of the Gelsenberg AG oil refinery is about to close his eyes for a few min- utes, when at 12:58 a.m. he is suddenly...
Read MoreFleeing from a Desperate Enemy | Crash of an English Lancaster in the Netherlands
… Hayes is floating over the water and fears for wet feet. It doesn’t really matter though. He got out of the plane without the...
Read MoreMr. Gary's Last Flight |Crash of an American Mustang in the Netherlands
… At about 200 feet Hilgenberg is no longer able to level the aircraft and his right wing falls down and touches the ground. The...
Read MoreA Fatal Underestimation | Crash of a Vickers Wellington in the Netherlands
… The people in the town of De Bokkerij look in terror at the ravaging fire. They back away when suddenly another explosion fills...
Read MoreThe Flying Barndoor | Crash of a Whitley V bomber in the Netherlands
… The signs are already bad. On July 5, 1941 Sergeant Norman Cound Bizley and his crew are flying a mission to Brest in Germany when...
Read MoreCrash of an AVRO Lancaster B Mk 1 bomber in the Netherlands
… George Fiddler, bomb aimer, has made sure that all the bombs are dropped on the designated site in Bremen. Now it is up to pilot...
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Auteurs | Authors
Gerrit Kamphuis & Silvie Kamphuis. Auteurs
De auteurs van Gevallen Helden zijn Gerrit en Silvie Kamphuis