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Identification:  British Bomber, Rheingonheim, 5/6 Sept., 1943
                                                            
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Crash

Date:-	According to the air raid report of 13/9/1943 by the Ludwigshafen police headquarters, the sky marking took place around midnight (24.OOh) and was immediately followed by the actual bombardment. On the other hand, Graham Barnard maintains that according to his father who was the only survivor, the aircraft had already dropped its bombs when it went down. Consequently, the crash of it must have occurred during the first hour of the 06th September, 1943.

Place:-	According to the eye-witnesses, Egon Zickgraf and Erwin Ludwig, the wreckage lay in the triangle with the Rheingonheim railway station, the high ground called "Dossen-buckel" and the Von-Kiefferstrasse as its corners.

The fuselage, in particular, rested on the premises
1328/1+2, 1329/3+4, and 1329/6+7, "Im Oberfeld/1. Gew.
Hedesgewanne", as this is marked on the relevant field
map by the eye-witness, Anneliese Folz, nee Deuschel.

One undercarriage wheel lay in the "2. Gewanne am Maudacher Weg, links", approximately off the present-day entrance/exit of OBI super market, some 60 metres to the west of Von-Kiefferstrasse. (Observation made/by the
	author.)	I

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Ludwigshafen, 25th March, 1998.
Richard Braun

Enclosures: -

1)    General map of Ludwigshafen
2)	List of dead persons dt. 13/9/1943 by Ludwigshafen Police,
3)	Ludwigshafen main cemetery register,
4)	page 5 of report dt. 13/9/1943 by Ludwigshafen Chief Constable,
5)	Loss Card
6)	Photos of crew members,
7)	Photos of crash site (fuselage).

Copies to

Graham Barnard,
George Brown,
Herbert Douglas,
Joyce Fines,

Bomber Command Association,
The Mildenhall Register.