Crashed Aircraft Memorial
Shortly after D-Day, on 22 June 1944 at 1:00 a.m., an English AVRO Lancaster III crashed in flames at Walik, in the Waliker Heath.
Shortly after D-Day, on 22 June 1944 at 1:00 a.m., an English AVRO Lancaster III crashed in flames at Walik, in the Waliker Heath. The aircraft had been hit by a German Junkers night fighter. All seven crew members, three Australians and four Englishmen, lost their lives. Four bodies were found near the crater, the other three were discovered at the small river Run, further on towards Eersel. They had tried to save themselves with their parachutes. In the presence of the only surviving eyewitnesses and an Australian relative of one of the fallen airmen, the memorial was unveiled on 22 June 2019, exactly 75 years after the crash.
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