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| "Uncle Will" Hay, the collator of 49Sqn records for the huge amount of information he has provided. |
| Herr Hermann Döbber a local historian in Gravenhorst for his help with details of the raids on the Mittelland Canal. |
| Dr Eckhart Schenkel for his assistance with the history of the DEK. |
| The town council of Hörstel for providing a copy of their excellent magazine covering 100 years of the Dortmund Ems Canal. |
| Dr Klaus Offenburg who contributed many of the articles to the Hörsteler Magazine which provided much needed background information. |
| Herr Willi Untiet of Ladbergen for providing much of the information concerning the German defences and attacks on the DEK. |
| Herr Smitz of the Kampfmittelbeseitigung in Detmold for details of the post war bomb clearances. |
| Herr Stork from Ladbergen who provided all the ground level photographs of the attacks on Ladbergen. |
| Mr Steve Vessey of Reepham for copies of Air Link, the newsletter of the Lincolnshire Aviation Society which contained much useful information. |
| Dr Axel Schollmeier of the Stadtmuseum for information about the DEK in Münster. |
| Herr Andre Mairose of the WSA (Wasser-Und Schiffahrtsamt) in Rheine for invaluable information about the reconstruction of the DEK at Ladbergen. |
| The Commonwealth War Graves Commission for details of burial sites. |
| Mr John Hey and Herr Willi Riegert for details of crashsites. |
| Herr Johan
Schuurman from Holland for details
and pictures of flak towers and Sgt Paul Patist of the Dutch Police for answering my original enquiry. |
| Herr Riepling of the Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung for images of the bomb clearance |
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