Arthur J. Spicas Photo: AS 25 MAY 2015 Updated: 18 JUN 2015
Airman: e556026.htm Surname: Spicas Init: A J Rank: S/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 550
P_link: p198.htm Plane: B17 423316 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea off Heligoland
Crash_d: d280743 Buried_d: e556a C_link: e556a.htm At_Next: Ardennes, BELGIUM
Den 28. juli 1943 styrtede
B17 42-3316 i Nordsøen ud for Helgoland på udturen af
et bombetogt
til Warnemünde (her).
Hele besætningen omkom.
Staff Sergeant Arthur J. Spicas var Left Waist Gunner på
B17 42-3316.
Han blev begravet på
Ardennes American
Cemetery
Plot B Row 9 Grave 21.
Han kom i tjeneste fra New York. Hæderstegn:
Air Medal, Purple Heart.
(Kilde: ABMC)
1 flyver fra
B17 42-3316 blev begravet i Esbjerg, 1 i USA og 7 i Belgien.
1 navn på Mindetavlen, NET.
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 42-3316 crashed into the North Sea off Heligoland
on the outward flight
of a bombing raid on
Warnemünde (here).
All of the crew perished.
Staff Sergeant Arthur J. Spicas was the Left Waist Gunner of
B17 42-3316.
He was
buried at
Ardennes American
Cemetery Plot B Row 9 Grave 21.
He entered the Service from
New York. Awards: Purple Heart.
(Source: ABMC)
1 airman from B17 42-3316 was buried in Esbjerg,1 in the USA, and 7 airmen in Belgium. 1 NO - NET.
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.
550 BS,
385 BG, 93 CBW, 3BD. This
B-17 took off
from RAF Great
Ashfield - USAAF Station 138. 10 airmen.