LOST - Dutch RAF/FAA Aviators Seriously Injured
Off Zwnr 3kl C.A.G. Pieters. Was hit by Flak shell fragments during an attack on an ammo storage in ForĂȘt de Lyon, France, on 9/8/1944, on board of Mitchell FR143. The aircraft had to be emergency-landed on The Channel. The four man crew managed to board a dinghy, and was rescued by a Walrus floatplane. Wounds in the foot of C.A.G. Pieters were such that the foot had to be amputated.
Jonkers
Onderluitenant KM Frits Overeijnder. Seriously burnt during the accident with Hudson T9356-D 'Brantas'. After reconvalescence he served with No. 511 Squadron.