Eyewitness

August Baeckeland from the adjacent Roksem, recalled the following events:

'It should have been around 3 o’clock in the morning when Valeere Vandekerckhove knocked on my door. He asked assistance with fear and terror. He told me that an aircraft was crashed close by his farm located at the Zeeweg. Arriving together with Valeere at his farm we encountered a terrifying scene Only twenty meters away from his farm I noticed an English bomber buried with his nose in the ground and with his tail straight up. In the orchard nearby I saw a parachute hanging with lifeless body of a crew member. It was difficult to distinguish everything in the dark and soon more people from the neighborhood joined us and slowly everything became clear

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