
Robert V. Bruce Photo: AS
25 MAY 2015 Updated:
18 JUN 2015
Airman: e556034.htm
Surname: Bruce Init: R V Rank: 2ndLt Service: USAAF
Sqdn: 427
P_link: p236.htm
Plane: B17 425221 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea
Crash_d: d091043 Buried_d: e556a
C_link: e556a.htm At_Next: Ardennes, BELGIUM
"Den 9. oktober 1943 angreb USAAF med 378
4-motorede bombefly flyfabrikker i den østlige del af Polen og Østpreussen, samt
havnefaciliteter i Gdynia (her)
og Danzig
(Gdansk
her). Både på udturen og hjemturen passerede
formationerne Danmark, hvor
tyske jagermaskiner angreb bomberne." (FAF)
Under et bombetogt til Anklam (her) i Tyskland den 9. oktober 1943 styrtede en
”Flyvende Fæstning” B17
42-5221 i Østersøen syd for Lolland, måske omkring
her. Tilsyneladende omkom hele besætningen, 10 mand.
2nd Lt (Bombardier) Robert V. Bruce drev ind på Dazendorfer Strand (her) i Tyskland.
(Kilde: MACR)
Begravet på
Ardennes American Cemetery Plot D Row 3
Grave 39. Han
kom i tjeneste fra South Carolina.
Hæderstegn: Air Medal,
Purple Heart. (Kilde:
ABMC)
7 flyvere fra
B17 42-5221 har ingen kendt grav. 1 blev begravet i
Tyskland, 1 i Rødby og 1 i Esbjerg. Alle 3 blev senere flyttet til Belgien eller
USA.
Se
B-17 Flyvende
Fæstning
* B17 i airmen.dk *
tegning af besætningen på
en B-17.
10 flyvere.
"On 9 October 1943 USAAF attacked
aircraft factories in the eastern part of Poland
and East Preussia together with
harbour facilities in Gdynia
(here)
and
Danzig
(Gdansk here)
with 378 4-engined bombers. Both on the
way out and the return flight the formations passed Denmark, where German fighters
attacked the bombers." (FAF)
During a bombing raid to Anklam
(here)
in Germany on 9 October 1943 a ”Flying
Fortress”
B17 42-5221 crashed in the Baltic Sea south of
Lolland, maybe about
here.
Apparently all
of the crew, 10 men, perished.
2nd Lt (Bombardier) Robert V. Bruce
was washed ashore at Dazendorfer Beach (here)
in GERMANY. (Source:
MACR)
Buried at
Ardennes American Cemetery Plot D Row 3
Grave 39. He
entered the Service from
South Carolina.
Awards:
Air Medal,
Purple Heart. (Source:
ABMC)
7 airmen from
B17 42-5221 have no known grave. 1 was buried in Germany,
1 in Rødby and 1 in Esbjerg. All 3 of them were later moved to Belgium or the USA.
This
B-17 belonged to
427 BS, 303
BG, 41 CBW, 1 BD, 8 AF of USAAF. It took off from RAF Molesworth
- USAAF Station 107.
See 303rd Bomb Group Heavy with the
Mission Report No. 76 of Oct
9 1943 about this crew and B17s in airmen.dk and a
drawing of the crew of a
B-17.
10 airmen.
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