Nathan Bedford Forrest                                                                         Updated:  11 JUL 2016            Photo from Ed Burton

Airman: e667016.htm Surname: Forrest Init: N B Rank: BGen Service: USAAF Sqdn: 334

P_link: p187.htm Plane: B17 42-30164 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Kiel Bugt (Bay)

Crash_d: d130643 Buried_d: e667 C_link: e667.htm At_Next: USA

Den 13. juni 1943 blev

I spidsen for formationen fløj Captain H. A. Stirwalt med Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest som ekstra observatør. - - -
General Forrest blev senere erklæret »missing in action« og blev dermed den første faldne amerikanske general under 2. verdenskrig.
Hans lig blev fundet nær Bug på Rügen og han blev begravet i Wiek (som er her). (Kilde: AOD) I 1949 blev han overført til Arlington Kirkegård i USA, Section 11, Grave 824-A.
(Kilde: Arlington National Cemetery Website, Forrest)

1 flyver fra B17 4230164 blev begravet på Svinø, 2 i Belgien og 4 i USA. 3 uden kendt grav mindes i CAMBRIDGE og 1 i NETHERLANDS. 2 blev taget til Tyske krigsfangelejre.

B17 4229702 * B17 423286 * B17 4230118 * B17 4229675 * B17 423187 * B17 4230164 styrtede alle ned i dele af Østersøen.
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. 13 flyvere.

On 13 June 1943 B17 4230164 with a crew of 13 was shot down over the Baltic Sea near Kiel (which is here).
8 parachutes were seen. Only 2 men survived. 2 POW, 6 MIA and 5 KIA (1 Svinø and 4 Germany)

Pilot Captain H. A. Stirwalt led the formation with the newly appointed Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 38, as an extra observer. - - -
Later General Forrest was declared "Missing in action", and in that way he became the first American General to perish during World War II.
His body was found near Bug on Rügen and he was buried in Wiek (which is here). (Source: AOD) In 1949 he was taken to Arlington Cemetery in
Washington, USA, Section 11 Site 824-A, see Arlington National Cemetery Website, Forrest. See also Nathan Bedford Forrest III.

2 airmen from B17 4230164 were buried at Svinø, 2 in Belgium, and 4 in the U.S.A. 3 without a known grave are remembered at CAMBRIDGE, 1 at NETHERLANDS. 
2 airmen were taken to German POW-Camps.

B17 4229702 * B17 423286 * B17 4230118 * B17 4229675 * B17 423187 * B17 4230164 all crashed in parts of the Baltic Sea.
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.
This B-17 was from 334 BS, 95 BG. See 95th Bomb Group (H). It took off from RAF Framlingham (Parham) - USAAF Station 153. 13 airmen.