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Lancaster Memorial Houtrakpolder

d. 2001

Placeholder for Lancaster Memorial Houtrakpolder Memorial

IN MEMORIAM ON 30st JANUARY 1944, AN ALLIED LANCASTER BOMBER, JB 659, CRASHED AT THIS SITE, WHICH WAS THEN THE FARM OF THE VAN DER BIJL FAMILY. SIX MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY AND THE SEVEN CREW MEMBERS PERISHED.

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