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Dutch find Czech crew remains at WW2 RAF bomber crash site


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image captionTwo of the Czechoslovak crew shown here - Karel Valach (1st left) and Vilem Konstacky (4th from left) - died in the June raid
Dutch salvage workers have found some bone fragments and scraps of airmen s clothing in the debris of an RAF Wellington bomber shot down over the Netherlands in June 1941.
The Wellington had a six-man Czech crew, five of whom died. It was downed by a German night fighter, crashing at Nieuwe Niedorp, a village about 60km (37 miles) north of Amsterdam.
It had been bombing the port of Bremen.
The dig is part of a wider Dutch project to find wartime crews remains. ....

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