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Toulouse: 80 years after the crash of the Lancaster bomber, a ceremony with the families of the victims

2024-04-05T08:35:25.414Z

Highlights: 18 British and Australian descendants of the crew of the Lancaster bomber, shot down in 1944 in Toulouse, will return this Saturday. “They died young, we don’t want them to be forgotten,” says Claire Jenkins-Robinson. The navigator of the Royal Air Force Lancaster ME-685, was shot down by the Germans in above the Montaudran district on the night of April 5 to 6, 1944. ‘We don't want to forget them,’ says Claire.


This Saturday, April 6, eighteen British and Australian descendants of the crew of the Lancaster bomber, shot down in 1944 in Toulouse, will return


“They died young, we don’t want them to be forgotten,” says Claire Jenkins-Robinson. This Welshwoman is going to Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) this Saturday April 6 to follow in the footsteps of her grandfather's cousin, Stanley Walter Sayce, the navigator of the Royal Air Force Lancaster ME-685, shot down by the Germans in above the Montaudran district on the night of April 5 to 6, 1944.

Thanks to the work of members of the Toulouse association Aérocherche, specialized in aeronautical archaeology, she now knows the story of this ancestor.

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Source: leparis

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