Dutch find crew remains at WW2 bomber crash site
Five Czech airmen died when their RAF Wellington bomber was shot down over the Netherlands.
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Five Czech airmen died when their RAF Wellington bomber was shot down over the Netherlands.
BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images image captionTwo of the Czechoslovak crew shown here - Karel Valach (1st left) and Vilem Konstacky (4th from left) - died in the June raid Dutch salvage workers have found some bone fragments and scraps of airmen's clothing in the debris of an RAF Wellington bomber shot down over the Netherlands in June 1941. The Wellington had a six-man Czech crew, five of whom died. It was downed by a German night fighter, crashing at Nieuwe Niedorp, a village about 60km (37 miles) north of Amsterdam. It had been bombing the port of Bremen. The dig is part of a...