Thomas J. Nix Jr. Updated: 19 FEB 2015
Airman: e667034.htm Surname: Nix Jr. Init: T J Rank: 2ndLt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 336
P_link: p197.htm Plane: B17 42-5882 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea off Heligoland
Crash_d: d280743 Buried_d: e667 C_link: e667.htm At_Next: USA
Den 28. juli 1943 styrtede
B17 42-5882 i Nordsøen ved Helgoland (der er
her) under
et bombetogt til
Oschersleben i Tyskland. 2nd Lieutenant Thomas J. Nix Jr. var
Navigator på
B17 42-5882. Han er begravet i USA. (Kilde: AOD) 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 42-5882 crashed into the sea near Heligoland (which
is here)
on a bombing raid targeting
Oschersleben in Germany. Co-Pilot 1st Lt William J. Parker was found
washed ashore near the the
Højer
Lock (here
- the advanced seawall built 1979-81). 2nd Lieutenant Thomas J. Nix Jr. was the Navigator of B17 42-5882. He is buried in the USA. (Source: AOD) 1 airman from
B17 42-5882 was buried in Esbjerg and 1 in the USA. 8
airmen have no known grave. |