Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 22, 2017 23:16:49 GMT 12
I have been corresponding with Tjerk Karsijns, of Roden, Netherlands, who has been piecing together the history of de Havilland Mosquitoes MM202 and RV326.
These two aircraft collided on the 27th of March 1945 over Tjerk's village of Roden. Mosquito RV326 crashed in between Roden and nearby Zevenhuizen. The pilot was Gordon David Hudson, who came from New Zealand.
Tjerk has written a book about that crash, and he and others have been searching for the engine of the Mosquito and hope to soon dig it up. He would like to tell this story here on the site and so he's asked me to place this here, with links to his findings:
Click the links for the documents
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
He also says:
"And, do not forget that my English is school-english. Of course I will inform you about the digging. I think the people in the municipality talk to each other on september 7.
Thanks very much what you are doing for me.
Best regards.
Tjerk."
These two aircraft collided on the 27th of March 1945 over Tjerk's village of Roden. Mosquito RV326 crashed in between Roden and nearby Zevenhuizen. The pilot was Gordon David Hudson, who came from New Zealand.
Tjerk has written a book about that crash, and he and others have been searching for the engine of the Mosquito and hope to soon dig it up. He would like to tell this story here on the site and so he's asked me to place this here, with links to his findings:
Click the links for the documents
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
He also says:
"And, do not forget that my English is school-english. Of course I will inform you about the digging. I think the people in the municipality talk to each other on september 7.
Thanks very much what you are doing for me.
Best regards.
Tjerk."
