James C. Ellis    Photo: AS 25 MAY 2015     Updated:  18 JUN 2015

Airman: e556016.htm Surname: Ellis Init: J C Rank: T/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 339

P_link: p199.htm Plane: B17 4230394 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off G

Crash_d: d280743 Buried_d: e556a C_link: e556a.htm At_Next: Ardennes, BELGIUM

Den 28. juli 1943 nødlandede B17 42-30394 på Nordsøen ud for Tyskland.
Tyske jagere havde beskadiget flyet, der var på bombetogt til Oschersleben Airfield.
1 flyver fra B17 42-30394 blev begravet i Kirkeby på Rømø og 1 i Esbjerg, 1 i Belgien og 1 i USA. 6 flyvere overlevede. De blev alle krigsfanger.

Technical Sergeant James C. Ellis var Radio Operator på B17 42-30394. (Kilde: AOD)

Han blev begravet på Ardennes American Cemetery Plot B Row 37 Grave 41. Han kom i
tjeneste fra Arkansas. Hæderstegn: Air Medal med Oak Leaf Cluster. (Kilde: ABMC)

MACR p196 B17 42-30401: "4 amerikanske bombefly styrtede i Nordsøen mellem den tyske
kyst og Helgoland den morgen." (Måske omkring her).
De 3 af dem må være B17 42-30401 * B17 42-3316 * B17 42-30394.

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 28 July 1943 B17 42-30394 ditched into the North Sea off Germany. German fighters
had damaged the plane on its raid on Oschersleben Airfield.
1 airman from B17 42-30394 was buried in Kirkeby on Rømø and 1 in Esbjerg, 1 in BELGIUM
and 1 in the USA. 6 airmen survived. All of them became POWs.

Technical Sergeant James C. Ellis was the Radio Operator of B17 42-30394. (Source: AOD)

He was buried at Ardennes American Cemetery Plot B Row 37 Grave 41. He entered the
Service from Arkansas. Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster. (Source: ABMC)

MACR p196 B17 42-30401: "4 USAAF bombers crashed in the North Sea between German Coast and Heligoland that morning." (Maybe about here).
3 of them must be B17 42-30401 * B17 42-3316 * B17 42-30394.

See a drawing of the crew of a B-17 * Photo of  a B-17 + B-17s in airmen.dk * B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition and the story of a Ball Turret Gunner
339 BS, 96 BG, 45 CBW, 3 BD * 96th Bombardment Group Association. This B-17 took off from RAF Snetterton Heath - USAAF Station 138. 10 airmen.