NG420
Crashes > of the R.A.F.
On the return flight from a bombing raid on Cologne, the Lancaster I, NG420 came under anti-aircraft fire and was also attacked by Lt. Walter Kalmbach of IV/NJG 6.
Heavily hit and on fire, the aircraft crashed in an open field on the outskirts of Sindorf at around 18:40 and burned out completely.
All seven crew members died in the crash and were buried in the cemetery in Sindorf. Five of them were initially identified as American soldiers by an American burial command and were therefore transferred to the American military cemetery in Margraten in 1945 and laid to rest in the Venraij British Cemetery near Eindhoven in April 1947.
Only W/O Herbert and Sgt Holliday were transferred from Sindorf to Rheinberg British Cemetery in September 1947.
Above:
The crash area around Sindorf
left:
The pilot, Flying Officer Donald Ian McDonald of the Royal Australian Air Force