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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Robert Thomas Harden Kearnes
« on: Friday 01 January 16 23:12 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Kae
Hope to hear from you soon. All the best for 2016.
Kind regards
Erik

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Robert Thomas Harden Kearnes
« on: Sunday 22 November 15 23:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Kae
I could lay my hands on a cemetery bill. Only five airmen were recovered at the crash site in 1943. Not seven (there were seven crew members aboard the plane). This leaves a few questions. I have  found the picture of those seven graves too. Note the age of the two air-gunners. It´s missing. This leaves a question too. Why are their ages missing (MOD must have had them) and why were only five men recovered and buried at our cemetery directly after the crash. After the war they (5) were exhumated and send to Rheinberg. There are seven names/graves in Rheinberg! The plane exploded in the air. Maybe the other two bailed out oder have fallen out of the plane(parts) in mid-air, were found later, but our contemporary witnesses never heard anything about other bodys or bodyparts found. Yet. What if they found only several bodyparts, of only five different crew members, and buried them. Our witnesses told me, identification must have been very hard. They were all badly burned. They all talked about five airmen. Not seven. The cemetery bill underlines that. What if there are still remains of the crew in the ground. We must find out.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Robert Thomas Harden Kearnes
« on: Sunday 22 November 15 22:10 GMT (UK)  »
Great to hear from you Kae!
Even the smallest piece of the puzzle can help. Anything you can find. And of course I will keep you posted. We are still waiting for the final GO. I am sure we will find something.
We have the approximate area but we still have to pinpoint it exactly with metal detecting equipment. I will send you pictures of the exact site as soon as possible.
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Hope to hear from you soon!
Kind regards
Erik

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Robert Thomas Harden Kearnes
« on: Sunday 22 November 15 18:17 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Carol & Sarah!

I hope she´ll receive your email and there will be a reply soon!

Thank you very much!

Kind Regards

Erik

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Robert Thomas Harden Kearnes
« on: Sunday 22 November 15 14:20 GMT (UK)  »
Dear Kae
I am writing you from Germany. My name is Erik Wieman. I am a citizen of the Netherlands, living in Germany. I am a member of a Crash-Site Research Group (“AG Vermisstenforschung”) under the direction of Uwe Benkel. Since 1989 our group has recovered and located more than 150 crashed planes and many missing crew members. Our primary goal is to find missing pilots and crew members, give them the burial they deserve, but for all, bring them home.

I live in a little town near Ludwigshafen/Mannheim. A few weeks ago I heard an english bomber crashed here in WW2. Date/Type: 05. Sept 1943. Halifax MkII JD 322 ZA-V. It crashed here after being shot up by a night fighter and flak after a mission over Mannheim. One Crew member was Wireless Operator Sgt. Kearnes, Robert Thomas Harden, 913467, RAF.

After I heard about the crashed plane I placed an add in the local newspaper to find out more about the crash. Shortly afterwards I could talk to contemporary witnesses and they told me everything they´d seen the night of the crash and the days afterwards. The result of this is that we probably have found the crash site. Shortly we will investigate the site with metal detectors.

Immediatly I started my search for relatives in the internet but, till now, I could not find anyone related to one of the crew members. It would be great if you could provide us with anything you know or have about Robert Thomas Kearnes, pictures etc., maybe even also about the other members of the crew. Till now we do not have any pictures of the crew or more detailed personal information.
Crew:
D'Eath, Denis Murray, 144788, Pilot (RAF)
Dee, Eric Hubert, 157194, Navigator (RAF)
Kearnes, Robert Thomas Harden, 913467, Wireless Operator (RAF)
Astin, Alan, 1675694, Flight Engineer (RAF)
McPherson, Coran Cyman, 14996, Bomb Aimer (RCAF, Canada)
Heinig, John Peter, 178656, Air Gunner (RCAF, Canada)
Cooper, William Allen, 1602272, Air Gunner (RAF)

We are still at the beginning, but maybe, in the near future, there hopefully wille be a possibility to plant a commemorative plaque at the crash site, in remembrance of what happened there that night in september 1943, and the seven lives that were lost, at exactly that spot.

Hoping to hear from you, an thank you very much for your time and cooperation.

Sincerely
Erik Wieman
AG Vermisstenforschung


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