Moving ceremony to commemorate bomber crew – Teesdale Mercury

TEESDALE relatives of an airman who lost his life in the Second World War attended a moving ceremony organised by Dutch officials who found his bomber submerged in a lake.Stirling BK716 took off from RAF Downham Market, in Norfolk, to take part in a raid on Berlin on March 29, 1943, with 328 other bombers. The aircraft was shot down over Lake Markermeer, near Amsterdam. The plane was on the return leg and all seven crew members were classed as missing. In 2008, the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue discovered a piece of rusty landing gear by chance. They later identified it as part of the Stirling BK716.A successful salvage operation of the aircr…