This bridge has played an important
part in the story of the crash of W7531 LS-F MacRobert's Reply, as you
may have read on the W7531 page. I thought it
would be good to provide a page dedicated to the bridge, and it's part
in the story. My thanks to Finn
Buch for the original photographs; the first one is from my own camera.
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The Little
Belt Bridge
The
original iron bridge that was so central to the crash of W7531
is in the foreground, and was built in the late 1930's. It is now
called the 'Old Bridge'. The newer bridge in the distance now carries
the 'Little Belt' name, although it was built much later to carry
the E20 motorway link to Jutland.qqqq
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The Original Guns
This is one of the flak positions on the bridge approach. The
gunners of 3./lei Flak Abt 844 (II and IV Zug) received credit for
shooting W7531 down,
and who knows may even be shown in this photograph? |
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Machine Guns
It was also known that the Germans had positioned heavy machine
guns on the bridge, and no doubt these were also brought to bear
on the stricken plane as it plunged into Gals Klint forest. |
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Line of Sight
This gun is placed almost immediately above the line that W7531
must have flown when it came in from the Danish Sound, as it is
almost directly in line with the crash site. Perhaps a shell from
this gun added to the damage inflicted on the 'Reply'? |
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Anti-Aircraft Tower
This tower was close to the bridge on the edge of Gals Klint forest. Its a new image (May 2005) found in the archives of Middelfart Museum by a good friend of this site, Lisbeth Behrendt.
Were guns on this platform responsible for bringing down W7531 on that fateful day in May 1942?
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