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Memorial Airfight Nijensleek

This memorial commemorates an airfight above Nijensleek on 15 August 1944, between a Liberator B24 H and German fighters. The Liberator and a Messerschmitt crashed, the Messerschmitt near the location of the memorial and the Liberator at the Steenwijker Aa. The victims of both sides are commemorated.

Text on the second plaque:
‘466BG/786BS
B-24 LADY LIGHTNING
1e LT. JOHN SUCHIU (KIA)
S/SGT. ROBERT R. ABBOTT (KIA)
S/SGT. JEROME R. SAMBURG (KIA)
S/SGT LOWELL D. STILES (KIA)

6./JG5 (EISMEER)
MESSERSCHMITT BF 109 G-6
UFFZ. R. SCHIERGHOFER.'

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