EE877
Crashes > of the R.A.F.
674 British bombers took off that day to attack Nuremberg, 33 of them did not return to their bases.
Among them was Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Stutridge Steer's Stirling EE877. The aircraft came under heavy flak on the return flight, including from 2nd / Flak Light Dept 130 and 438 and Heavy Flak Dept 331 and 477.
Between Rhine kilometres 673 and 674 the burning aircraft crashed into the Rhine, the entire crew could only be recovered dead and were buried, some as "unknown British soldiers" in Cologne's South Cemetery.
In August 2022, at very low Rhine levels, several pieces of debris were dug out of the Rhine mud, which almost certainly belong to the crashed Stirling EE877.
Above:
The crash site of EE877 on the banks of the Rhine in Porz-Langel.
left:
Post-war report on the crash
At a very low level of the Rhine in August 2022
these parts were dug out of the mud
at Rhine km 673.5. It is highly probable that
it is debris from the EE877.