... as the song says.  Destruction in central Rotterdam, May 1940, following the complicated screw-up that resulted in the bombing of the area by some 90 Heinkel III medium bombers.  With due respect to present-day Rotterdam, following the "modernist" rebuilding, it really could be Anywhere ... In sadness, JR.

Rotterdam is anywhere ...

External view of the cockpit of a Fw-189 A-1 with the pilot on his seat.

Fw-189 'Uhu'

Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld ( Born 14th July 1918, Died 22nd March 1944), credited with 51 aerial victories, all of them claimed in nocturnal combat missions. Killed in a flying accident on 22 March 1944 on a routine flight from Parchim to Athies-sous-Laon. Above Belgium, they seem to have encountered a bad weather zone with low clouds and a dense snowstorm and it was assumed that the aircraft hit the high Ardennes ground after being forced to fly lower because of ice forming on the wings. Buried next to Prinz Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein are buried side by side at Ysselsteyn in the Netherlands.
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