They in turn contacted the local aviation historian Torkel Fagerström who in his turn contacted Bo Widfeldt. First I contacted the local newspaper - Laholms Tidning. It wasn´t really until 1980 before I decided to find out all the facts about the crash in 1944. THE HATCH hanged on the same place in my parents home for a few decades and we basically forgot about it. The hatch is now a part of the FLC:s collection. The hatch (54 x 48 cm), inside and outside. Some times also mentioned was The Swedish Home Guard, Four-engines and Flying Fortress. There was talk of Night, Darkness, Fire, Bombers, Explosions, Aviators, Parachutes, Machine Guns and other things, words that sent shivers down the spine on a kid like me. I had heard fragments of dramatic stories when THE HATCH was mentioned. But later on, when I was a bit older, THE HATCH got my curiosity. Since I was only two years old at the time I knew nothing about it. It had been put there by my father in the autumn of 1944. ’That was the right stuff’ we thought! THE HATCH - the story from the beginningĭuring my childhood a mysterious HATCH with the text Emergency Exit hanged in one of the farm´s outhouses. The engine ran on a mixture of ether, castor oil and kerosene. The coolest thing was when mentioned friend got a line controlled model aircraft with a 1.5 cc Frog diesel engine. I did not like it when my old friends Spitfire met this cruel fate. We fixed a crash in a field with fire and everything, and documented the drama with a box camera that gave black and white images. Most of what we built was not good, but it burned very well. The floor was at times full of balsaspill and clips from Japanese paper. Truedsson were our Bibles.Sigurd Isacson was a prophet and Biggles was God. The smell from the stove blended with the scents of hobby glue, paint and Semo dope. In the village we formed a model flying club in a former servants´ chamber which was heated with a iron stove. He lived in Bjärnum and is well known among aviation historians. He in turn had a friend who sometimes came to visit. The pilots waved at us and we even felt the wind as they passed by.Ī three year older friend of mine was a big fan of aviation and he tought me many things. The most dramatic incident was when a group of B18 came flying at extremely low altitude. Even "those yellow ones", from F5 Ljungbyhed, passed from time to time during training flights over southern Halland. It was the J22, J21, B18, B3 and even "blow torches" such as J21R and J28, and then the "monster" - the J29 Tunnan (flying barrel). The Air Force squadrons, F10 and F14, in Ängelholm and Halmstad flew with their planes several times daily. In the late 40´s and 50´s this place was a fantastic viewing point if you wanted to see aircraft. My parents had a farm in the village Ålstorp in southern Halland, about 10 km east of Laholm. Since my early childhood aviation has been a great personal interest of mine. The hatch, the history of Lancaster LL947 - Written by Rolf Arvidsson. Sgt Stephen McFarlane, Mid-Upper Gunner.Avro Lancaster B.I - Serial # LL947 300 Squadron, Faldingworth RAF Forced Landing - Avro Lancaster B.I - Serial # LL947
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