Byron E. Logie
Updated: 20 JUL 2018 P_link: p278.htm Plane: B24 42-52432 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Venslev. Crash_d: d090444 Buried_d: s999 C_link: v999.htm At_Next: EVD
Pilot, sekondløjtnant
Byron Ellsworth Logie var nødt til at
tage de rigtige beslutninger, da de 2 indvendige motorer og det elektriske
system blev ødelagt.
Navigatør, flyveofficer B.E. Jacobsen blev ramt af en granatsplint i
halspulsåren og blødte slemt.
Piloten, sekondløjtnant B.E. Logie beordrede flymekaniker, sergent W.E. Scott
til Da en tredje motor blev ramt, lød alamklokken for
at få besætningen til at springe. 5 af dem kom godt ned, men et besætningsmedlem
kom ud så sent, at hans Logie sprang ud lige før flyet ramte jorden og
landede sikkert i sin faldskærm nord for Venslev. AOD: "Logie landede nord for
landsbyen og gemte sig i Bjerge Å. Via Roskilde blev han bragt til København. Han
blev sejlet til Sverige 17/4 1944 af "Dansk-Svensk Flygtningetjeneste". Pilot 2nd Lt
B.E. Logie had to make the right
decisions, when the two inboard engines as well as the electrical system were
destroyed. When a third engine was hit the alarm bell was
sounded to make the crew jump. 5 of them came down successfully, but one member
of the crew got out so late that Logie jumped out just before the plane hit the ground and landed safely in his parachute north of Venslev. AOD: "Logie landed north of the village and hid in Bjerge å (River). He was spotted by Agnethe Jensen and Farmhand Aksel Larsen from Brobjerg who helped him to hide in a haystack. In the evening logie was taken to the farm kitchen and fed. Later on the same evening he was picked up by Bent O. Jacobsen, Svend E. Petersen and the Head of Falck in Slagelse Bruno de Neergaard in a tow truck and taken to Fuglebjerg where he was put in an ambulance and driven to Slagelse. Here he spent the night at de Neergaard´s home. The next morning Logie was walked over to Doctor Christensens flat, where he spent some time." Via Roskilde he was brought to Copenhagen. He was
shipped to Sweden on April 17, 1944 by "Danish-Swedish Refugee Service". |