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Air war
From 1941, some planes with British and Canadian pilots aboard crash in this region. They are shot down by German guns. Very rarely a pilot survives with the help of the local population.
Sometimes unfortunate civilians are the victims, when their farm or house is hit. On Saturday 13 October, 1942, at 2.30 p.m., an English Vickers Wellington plane crashes on the land of farmer B. Snelting in Megchelen. Five airmen lost their lives in this crash.
Night nurse
People are getting used to the planes, the noise and all risks involved. Sometimes they only fly over. Sometimes they are accompanied by fighter-bombers which shoot at anything that looks German. In order to be able to manoeuvre more easily, the pilots sometimes drop their bomb load suddenly, with all disastrous consequences for the civilian population. So-called night fighters patrol regularly in the air. They are popularly called ‘Night nurse’: A night fighter but not the same one each night.