Richard F. Gall                                                                                         Updated:  04 JAN 2012

Airman: u003027.htm Surname: Gall Init: R F Rank: 2ndLt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 700

P_link: p330.htm Plane: B24 42-50329 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Lillebælt.

Crash_d: d210644 Buried_d: b120744 C_link: c003.htm At_Next: Assens

Under et bombetogt til Berlin styrtede B24 42-50329 i havet ved Årø i Lillebælt (omkring her - Kilde: AOD) efter at de 10 flyvere var sprunget ud med faldskærm.

Se mere om en B-24 Liberator, som er større end en B-17 Flyvende Fæstning.

R.F. Gall drev i land som lig ved Helnæs. Han blev begravet i Assens den 12. juli 1944.
Han og alle andre amerikanske flyvere, som var begravet i Assens, blev 28. april 1948 udleveret til USA.
Der er intet synligt minde for dem på Assens Kirkegård.

På Årø er dette monument for de omkomne. (Kilde: FAF)
10 flyvere. 

During a bombing raid to Berlin B24 42-50329 crashed in the sea at Årø in Lillebælt (about here - Source: AOD) after the 10 airmen had bailed out.

See more about a B-24 Liberator, bigger than a  B-17 Flying Fortress.

The body of R.F. Gall drifted ashore on Helnæs. He was buried in Assens on 12 July, 1944.
He and all other American airmen who rested in Assens were handed over to the USA on 28 April 1948.
There is no memorial to them in Assens New Cemetery.

This monument to the perished airmen is erected on Årø. (Source: FAF) See also memorial stone to William J. Mulligan in Sandager Churchyard.

This B-24 belonged to 700 BS, 445 BG, 2 CBW, 2 BD, 8 AF. See 445th Bomb Group (Heavy). It took off from RAF Tibenham - USAAF Station 124. 10 airmen.