A British hunter bomber crashed shortly before the end of the Second World War in Adnet. Soldier Fred Cole survived the shooting. Now his family members visited the Tennengau – exactly 80 years after the war step. . .
Until his death, Fred Cole almost never spoke around April 25, 1945. That day, the British soldier, together with six comrades from the Royal Air Force, climbed a fiddling pilot. Your mission: bombing in the vicinity of Adolf Hitler on Obersalzberg. The operation failed, Nazi soldiers shot the British plane above the Rossfeld. The Lancaster LM 756 crashed on Adnet – flight engineer Cole and two other crew members survived the shooting intact.
Cousin of Crash victims is now a soldier
Since 2015 there has been a monument on the crash site. Exactly 80 years after the war accident, they met again on Friday for a commemoration – among the participants also members of Fred Cole. “My grandfather would be very proud,” said grandson Jim Aucott-Hall with tears in his eyes. “It is really moving to be here. At home I have a wreckage of the 1945 flyer,” he said. David Cole is the cousin of flight engineer Fred Cole. Just like his uncle, he is employed by the Royal Air Force. “And that for 42 years,” the British smiled. Does his uncle agree with his professional career? “We never really spoke about that,” he said. In any case, the celebration on the Adneter Spumberg is ‘a sign that we all want to live in permanent peace’.
The ceremony was initiated by the local Chief Wolfgang Auer (ÖVP). He has been investigating the background of the accident for years, has found the family members. In his speech on Friday, he stroked the motto of the ceremony: “80 years of war – of enemies became friends.”
David Cole could only agree: “It always touches me how nice people are in Adnet. Here it’s just great every time.”
Source: Krone
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