Memorial Dambuster Crew S for Sugar
During Operation Chastise, the Dambuster Raid, several Lancasters were lost. ED865 AJ-S, the aircraft of pilot P/O L.J. Burpee, crashed during the outbound flight at Gilze-Rijen airbase. The explosion of aircraft and Upkeep bomb caused a lot of damage.
On the 4th of May 2018 this memorial was erected at the crash site. On top of the memorial a cranckshaft with 7 pistons of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine was placed. Every piston represents a crew member.
The memorial is located on an active airbase. This location is not open to the public.
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Source
- Text: Arjan Vrieze
- Photos: Arjan Vrieze
Nearby
Point of interest
- Airport Gilze-Rijen - Gilze-Rijen
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- Memory Route World War ll Lederfabriek North Brabant Burned in Rijen - Rijen (Gilze en Rijen)
Monument
- Liberation Route Marker 143 - Rijen (Gilze-Rijen)
- Plaque Killed N.S. Employee Rijen - Rijen (Gilze en Rijen)
- Liberation Route Marker 144 - Hulten (Gilze en Rijen)
Cemetery
- Graves Civilian Victims Catholic Cemetery Hulten - Hulten (Gilze en Rijen)
- Commonwealth War Graves Roman Catholic Cemetery Gilze - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
- Collective Grave Civilian Casualties Roman Catholic Cemetery Gilze - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
Remembrance Stone
- Stumbling Stone Hoogstraat 80 - Oosterhout
- Stumbling Stone Klappeijstraat 46 - Oosterhout
- Stumbling Stone Leijsenhoek 73 - Oosterhout
Fortification
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