The Harz and Heide region

The Harz and Heide region

The area under consideration in Lower Saxony extends north to the Heath and south to the Harz Mountains and is bordered by the eastern region of Hanover and the border area of Saxony-Anhalt. It includes the cities of Braunschweig, Salzgitter and Wolfsburg and the districts of Peine, Wolfenbüttel, Helmstedt, Gifhorn, Celle, Uelzen, Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lüneburg, Hildesheim, the Heidekreis, the Harz, as well as the eastern region of Hanover and the border area of Saxony-Anhalt.

The aircraft types and the locations of the crash are noted on the overview map. The exact location of the crash is not indicated, but only the location that has been handed down in the documents. So there is no way that many planes crashed in the city center of Braunschweig, Celle or Lüneburg, but they are all crashes for which only the vague designation "near Braunschweig" or "Celle region" is noted in the historical documents.

The gray pins indicate airfields. The dark gray dots are Luftwaffe crashes, the blue dots are USAF crashes and the red dots are RAF crashes.

If you have found your place on the map and it has a dot, then perhaps there are stories about it in the village. Feel free to write to me and contribute to the success of the documentation. Maybe the place doesn't have a dot, but you know that an airplane crashed there, then please write to me too. It is possible that one of the many crashes can be assigned with your information without an exact location.

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