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Sgt Leonard Shrubsall was part of the seven man crew of a Fast Stirling Bomber
The son of a crew member of a World Battle Two bomber that crashed proper right into a lake throughout the Netherlands has welcomed the Dutch authorities operation to raise it.
The Fast Stirling Bomber, primarily based at RAF Downham Market in Norfolk, was misplaced coming back from a 1943 raid on Germany.
Gunner Sgt Leonard Shrubsall’s son Richard, 76, thought his father’s plane had been misplaced over the ocean.
Nonetheless the plane had been current in a lake and the operation to get properly it started on Monday.
It is anticipated to take four to five weeks.
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Sgt Shrubsall’s partner Beatrice saved a tin which contained the telegram and letter from King George VI about her husband
Sgt Shrubsall’s partner Beatrice was three months pregnant with Richard when she obtained a telegram saying her 30-year-old husband had did not return from the operation over Berlin.
Mr Shrubsall, from Iwade in Kent, welcomed the selection of the Dutch authorities to fund the elevating of the plane, which landed in Lake Markermeer near Amsterdam, after it was shot down by a German night fighter.
“I am so pleased they found the plane and are going to spice up it up. I really feel they realise what we did for the Dutch in the middle of the warfare and must say ‘thanks’.” he acknowledged.
Mr Shrubsall’s partner Janice, 76, acknowledged: “We couldn’t take into account it as soon as we acquired the letter.”
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Janice and Richard Shrubsall had thought the bomber may need crashed into the ocean
Mr Shrubsall acknowledged: “I under no circumstances thought we’d uncover him. We thought he’d come down over the North Sea, nonetheless he received right here down near Amsterdam.”
He acknowledged he and his family had been planning to go to the Netherlands in October to hunt out out the outcomes of the restoration operation.
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Sgt Leonard Shrubsall was a bomber gunner
He acknowledged he was not nervous about points from some plane followers that the deliberate restoration was using a grabber rather than a dam because of he believed the authorities throughout the Netherlands “know what they’re doing”.
Mrs Shrubsall acknowledged after Mr Shrubsall’s mother died, they found “she saved a tin, a small oval tin, with photographs (of Sgt Shrubsall) and letters he had written, and the telegram reporting him missing”.
Misplaced bomber crew
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The Fast Stirling Bomber BK716 was misplaced when coming back from a bombing raid in Germany
The crew of Fast Stirling BK716 had been:
- Sgt Charles Armstrong Bell, 29, from Langley Park, County Durham
- Pilot Officer John Michael Campbell, 30, from Golders Inexperienced, north London
- Flying Officer Harry Gregory Farrington, 24, from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
- Flying Officer John Frederick Harris, 29, from Swindon, Wiltshire
- Sgt Ronald Kennedy, 22, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Sgt John Francis James McCaw, 20, from Belleville, Ontario, Canada
- Sgt Leonard Richard James Shrubsall, 30, from Iwade, Kent
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