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Originally posted by TColvin
Thinking about it, I suspect Conger was an engineless Carrier loaded with the hosepipe of nitroglycerine that was towed behind an AVRE.
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Correct - here's a drawing:
Source: http://www.jed.simonides.org/
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Originally posted by Alex van de Wetering
A small text with the Photo, says the Conger-accident happened in "IsjenDyke".......??? I don't know where this is. It is lkely to be a Belgian or Dutch village, but spelled wrong. I am from Holland, and I don't know it. I have done a little search, but spelled this way, it doesn't exist in Holland. Any suggetions???
Originally posted by TColvin
By the way, if anybody knows where in the Netherlands the Conger disaster occurred, please let me know.
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Alex, Tony, that disaster happened at the Dutch town IJzendijke, close to the Belgian border (see attched pic).
After the Battle magazine issue no. 99 features an article titled "
The IJzendijke Explosion - Karel Margry investigates one of the largest accidental explosions of the whole North-West European campaign.".
It was only a few years ago that a
monument was unveiled at IJzendijke to commemorate this explosion.