Billy M. Salyer           Photo: AS 25 MAY 2015   Updated:  18 JUN 2015

Airman: e556013.htm Surname: Salyer Init: B M Rank: S/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 561

P_link: p228.htm Plane: B17 4230421 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d021043 Buried_d: e556a C_link: e556a.htm At_Next: Ardennes, BELGIUM

Den 2. oktober 1943 styrtede B17 42-30421 i Nordsøen på tilbagevejen fra et bombetogt til Emden (her). Hele besætningen omkom.

Staff Sergeant Billy M. Salyer var Tail Gunner på B17 42-30421. (Kilde: AOD)
Han blev begravet på Ardennes American Cemetery Plot C Row 22 Grave 4.
Han kom i tjeneste fra Missouri. Hæderstegn: Air Medal, Purple Heart. (Kilde: ABMC)

1 flyver fra B17 42-30421 blev begravet i Lemvig. 4 blev begravet i Belgien og 3 i USA. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.

Se tegning af besætningen på en B-17, Foto af en B-17 + B-17 i airmen.dk samt
B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition og Ball Turret Gunner. 
10 flyvere.

On 2 October 1943 B17 42-30421 crashed into the North Sea on the return flight from a
bombing raid on Emden (here). All of the crew perished.

Staff Sergeant Billy M. Salyer was the Tail Gunner of B17 42-30421. (Source: AOD)
He was buried at Ardennes American Cemetery Plot C Row 22 Grave 4.
He entered the Service from Missouri. Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart. (Source: ABMC)

1 airman from B17 42-30421 was buried in Lemvig, Denmark. 4 were buried in BELGIUM and 3
in the USA. 2 airmen have no known grave.

See a drawing of the crew of a B-17, Photo of  a B-17 + B-17s in airmen.dk and
B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition and the story of a Ball Turret Gunner.

B17 42-330421 was from 561 BS, 388th Bomb Group, 45 CBW and 3 BD. 388th BG Assn. This B-17 took off from RAF Knettishall - USAAF Station 136.
10 airmen.