All Underhill knew growing up what that her father, Flight Lieutenant Robert Coventry, 27, was piloting a Bristol Blenheim bomber when it lost power and crashed near Gloucester, England in September 1940. What she just discovered recently is that he stayed at the controls to prevent the aircraft from plowing into a school in the tiny hamlet of Quedgeley. And now that community plans to honour his memory. Coventry was the grandson of the 9thEarl of Coventry and the son of the Hon. Thomas George Coventry, a charming, adventurous, Eton-educated Englishman who served as Conservative MLA for Saanich in the 1920s but whose love of gambling on horses caused grief.
Woman Joins Mountain Trek to Her Great Uncle s Long Lost WW2 Plane
On 4/14/21 at 5:44 AM EDT
A woman went on an expedition up Mount Kenya after her great-uncle s plane was finally discovered 79 years since it crashed during WWII.
Monet Izabeth, from Massachusetts, said she was told about the discovery via an out of the blue Facebook message.
She was given permission to join a British Army trek up the mountain, which at 5,199m is the second-highest in Africa after Kilimanjaro.
Izabeth is now sharing her incredible real-life Indiana Jones adventure online.
Speaking in a series of TikTok clips detailing the trip, she said: I went up with the British Army up Mount Kenya on an expedition to rediscover my uncle s long lost plane crash from WWII. He went MIA. No one knew what happened to him.
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Leutnant Heinz Schnabel and Oberleutnant Harry Wappler tried to flee in 1941
They were prisoners of war at the converted Shap Wells Hotel, in Cumbria
They hatched plan to catch the train to RAF Kingstown airfield, near Carlisle
The men then stole a Miles Magister training aircraft but ran out of fuel
Maintained their Dutch identities to blag their way into another base to refuel
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