Crash Location Hawker Typhoon

A new memorial was placed at this location on 28 September 2019.

While bombing barges on 28 September 1944, the Hawker Typhoon fighter plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed in the Kortland polder in Alblasserdam.

The crash killed the Belgian-born Royal Air Force pilot Flight Lieutenant Jean-Noël VanDaele. An information board and stone have now been placed on the spot where the plane crashed.

Jean-Noël VanDaele's actual grave lies among four other war graves at the Oude Torenhof general cemetery on the Kerkstraat in Alblasserdam.

The remains of the plane were recovered in February/March 2024. It lay about 6 metres deep in the peat soil and ammunition, the engine, one of the board guns, parts of the fuselage, oxygen tanks and the seat were found, among other things. The wings were already taken by the Germans after the crash.

The intention is to put the found remains on display in Alblasserdam one day.

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Source

• Text: Judith Dalm-Plug en Traces of War
• Photos: Judith Dalm-Plug (1, 2, 3), Jan de Jager (4, 5)
• https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/aankondiging-28-09-2019-onthulling-monument-typhoon-alblasserdam/