B 17F 42-5838 - Asnæs - Photos of B17 42-5838 and Wirth from Helge Christiansen         Updated:  06 MAR 2010

Foto af Mad Money II B17 42-5838 i bogen
A Dying Breed. Se
Det var det sidste af de oprindelige fly i
384th Bomb Group. Se Foto af besætningen.
Se også Tab af liv og Happy Ending.
Foto af Wirth fra artikel af Helge Christiansen i Kalundborg Folkeblad den 8. januar 1994.
Billedtekst: "Theodore M. Wirth i en mere fredelig
tid end 1944 fotograferet på sin mejetærsker på
sin farm i Nebraska i 1979."
I 1993 fortalte Wirth detaljer om høsten det år
til Helge Christiansen.


I 1944 så Helge Christiansen, dengang 9 år, B17 42-5838 kredse over området inden flyet mave- landede her kun omkring 100 m fra ham. Han så piloten antænde maskinen. Helge og hans bror
kom en dag hjem med bælter med Ammunition fra flyet. Det kunne deres far slet ikke lide!

Photo of Mad Money II B17 42-5838 in the book A Dying Breed.
It was the last of the 384th Bomb Group's original planes.

See also Photo of the crew of B17 42-5838,  Loss of Lives and Happy Ending.

Photo of Wirth from an article by Helge Christiansen in the newspaper Kalundborg Folkeblad
on 8 January 1994.
Caption: "Theodore M. Wirth in a more peaceful time than 1944 seen on his combine on his farm in Nebraska in 1979." In 1993 Wirth told details about the harvest that year to Helge Christiansen.

In 1944 Helge Christiansen, then 9, saw B17 42-5838 circle over the area before it made a belly
landing here only about 100 m from him. He saw the pilot set fire to the plane. One day Helge and
his brother came home with belts of Ammunition from the plane. Their father did not like that!!!