Avro Lancaster LL943
The enigma of Lancaster LL 943 by Gabriel Bauters
18 / 19 July 1944: from Witchford(i) to Aulnoye, from Aulnoye to Laplaigne and to Valenciennes.
September 6, 1944: at Laplaigne, impressive funerals.
For over sixty-five years, Sergeant Henry Simmonds is buried in the communal cemetery of Laplaigne.
True duty of memory, the enigma of LL943, fate of oblivion the sacrifice of seven young British airmen.?
From where was then turning back the airplane of the young aviator? What was its mission? Where an how has he been stricken? What happened to the other members of the crew? Who were they?
April 2011, thanks to Simelas.com and to the book of Gabriel Bauters, Sergeant Henry Simmonds brother and sister, discovered, 65 five years later, how and what happened to her brother and to the other crew members of LL943.
Baron Pierre de Caters
baron Pierre de CATERS (1875-1944) - Or the Madness for the Wheels
This book (270 pages), written by Baron de Caters grandson Guy de Caters, is divided in two periods.
The first one relates the car races to which Pierre de Caters participated (Paris-Vienne in 1902, Paris-Madrid in 1903, Ardennes ( Buggles) circuit in 1902, 1905, 1907, Gordon-Bennett race in 1903, 1904 and 1905).
The second period describes the birth of the Belgian aviation in 1908, with the Voisin « de CATERS NºI » and « de CATERS NºII ». Pierre de Caters built the first airfield of Belgium at St-Job-in-'t-Goor in the province of Anvers, created the first Belgian aircraft company whose planes were named "Aviator" and did several journey abroad belgium, one of them reaching india.
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ISBN : 978-84-613-8604-8