Thomas M. Brown Updated: 11 JAN 2019
Airman: e777385.htm Surname: Brown Init: T M Rank: Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 410
P_link: p189.htm Plane: B17 4230206 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea Photo 24 MAY 2015 by AS from
Crash_d: d250743 Buried_d: e777n C_link: e777n.htm At_Next: NO - NET Tablets of the Missing, Netherlands American Cemetery.
B17 4230206
nødlandede på Nordsøen den 27. juli 1943. AOD har detaljer. Fra bogen A. Hjorth Rasmussen: Det er nødvendigt at sejle, Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet, Esbjerg, 1980:
Den 27. juli 1943, reddede FN 41 »Betty«
9 mand fra en flyvende fæstning, som blev tvunget til nødlanding på Nordsøen
efter at være angrebet af 3 tyske jagere.
Sgt (Waist Gunner) Thomas M. Brown klarede
ikke at komme ud af flyet. Han gik ned med det. Han har
ingen
kendt grav. Hans navn findes på Tablets of the Missing,
Netherlands American Cemetery.
Han kom i tjeneste fra Virginia. Hæderstegn:
Air Medal, Purple Heart.
(Kilde: ABMC)
B17 4230206 ditched in the North Sea on 27 July 1943. AOD
has details. From the book A. Hjorth Rasmussen: Det er
nødvendigt at sejle Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet, Esbjerg, 1980 On 27 July 1943 FN 41
”Betty” rescued 9 men from a Flying Fortress. A forced landing in the North
Sea was inevitable after attacks by 3 German fighters. Sgt (Waist Gunner) Thomas M. Brown did
not manage to get out of the plane. He went down with it. He has
no known grave.
His name is inscribed on See
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. |