Crash Site Heinkel 111 H-2

On 11 June 1941, a Heinkel 111 with registration 4T+1H of the German Luftwaffe crashed at this site. The aircraft had taken off from Buc airfield near Paris for a meteorological reconnaissance flight. Over St George's Channel, the aircraft was attacked by 2 Huricanes of the RAF and badly damaged. It tried to make an emergency landing in neutral Ireland but collided with a large rock along the coastline, ploughed through a field and caught fire.

The five crew members were killed in the process. They were initially buried at St Ibar's cemetery in Wexford and reburied at the German War Cemetery in Glencree in May 1959.

The riddle of the Mezuza. A small metal cylinder was found near the wreckage containing a Mezuza, a Jewish prayer written by hand on parchment. Secretly, perhaps one of the crew was Jewish?

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Eamon Bourke