Den 9. oktober 1943 lavede
B17 42-30336 en perfekt nødlanding nær
Nørholm Gods (der er
her).
Se Foto af besætningen.
Sammen med andre bombefly skulle
B17 42-30336 bombe Marienburg i Tyskland, men maskinen
havde motorproblemer efter at have krydset Nordsøen.
MACR fastslår: "Klokken 1038 i en højde af 11.600 fod (3.500 m) og med propel
nr. 2 kantstillet, vendte fly No. 42-30336 fra denne Group om ud for Nymindegab
(her)
efter at være sakket bagud i omkring 8 minutter. Flyet syntes at være under
kontrol til det blev tabt af syne."
Flyet havde været over land. Det vendte om og
fløj mod England, da flere motorproblemer gjorde en ny beslutning nødvendig. Et
forsøg på at flyve hele vejen tilbage
til England over Nordsøen ville være
selvmord, så det vendte om igen. Pilot, 1st Lt Glyndon D. Bell beordrede
besætningen til at springe ud over land.
De 10 andre flyvere blev snart fanget
og ført til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Derpå lavede Bell en perfekt nødlanding og fik snart kontakt med hjælpsomme
danskere. Han blev ført tværs over Danmark til København.
Den 24. oktober 1943
blev han sejlet til Sverige. AOD har detaljer.
Kommentar: En klog beslutning at springe ud over land i stedet for at
drukne i Nordsøen! I mindst 3 andre fly regnede man også chancen for at nå
England for lille:
Efter
angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West 13. august
1940 nåede BLE T1889
Nordsøen, vendte om og nødlandede ved Vust (her).
Besætningen
overlevede.
Efter et opgivet angreb på Aalborg den 22. februar 1944 nåede
B17 42-31377 20 minutter ud over Nordsøen og vendte om. 9 flyvere
overlevede!
Schrenk har meget mere!
Den 24. august 1944 nåede B24 4440443 ud over Nordsøen.
Besætningen bortset fra piloten sprang ud. 9 flyvere druknede! Piloten klarede
at flyve til England!
Se
Tegning af besætningen på
en B-17 og
Foto af en B-17 + B-17 i airmen.dk. 11
flyvere.
On 9 October 1943 B17
42-30336 made a perfect forced landing at the estate Nørholm Gods (which is
here).
See
Photo of the Crew of Li'l Audrey.
Together with other bombers
B17 42-30336 was to bomb Marienburg in Germany, but it
had engine trouble when it had crossed the North Sea.
MACR states: "Aircraft No. 42-30336 of this Group, at 1038 hours, altitude
11,600 feet with No. 2 propeller feathered, turned back at Nymindegab (here)
off the
Danish coast, after lagging for approximately eight minutes. The ship
appeared to be under control until lost to vision."
The plane had been over land. It turned around
and headed for England when more engine trouble made a new decision necessary.
An attempt to fly all the way
back to England across the North Sea would be
suicide, so it turned around again. Pilot, 1st Lt Glyndon D. Bell ordered the
crew to bail out over land.
The 10 other airmen were soon captured and taken to
German POW-Camps.
Bell then made
a perfect forced landing and soon contacted helpful Danes. He was taken across
Denmark to Copenhagen. On 24 October 1943 he was sailed
to Sweden. AOD has
details.
Comment: A wise decision to bail out over land instead of drowning in the
North Sea. In at least 3 other planes they also found it hard to reach England:
BLE T1889 reached the North Sea after an attack on
Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13
August, 1940, turned around and crash landed. The crew
survived!
After an aborted attack on Aalborg on 22 February 1944 B17
42-31377 returned after 20 minutes over the North Sea. 9 airmen survived.
Schrenk has a
lot more.
On 24 August 1944 B24
4440443 reached the North Sea. Apart from the pilot the crew bailed out. 9
airmen drowned!
This
B-17 was from
548 BS,
385th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 93 CBW, 3 BD, 8 AF of the USAAF. It took off from
RAF Great Ashfield -
USAAF Station 155 See Happy Ending and
The Eagle. See
also Photo of a B-17+ B-17s in airmen.dk and
drawing of the crew of a
B-17.
11 airmen.
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