Earl W. Norlen Updated: 17 AUG 2015
Airman: e777615.htm Surname: Norlen Init: E W Rank: T/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 367
P_link: p202.htm Plane: B17 423084 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Kiel Bugt (Bay)
Crash_d: d290743 Buried_d: e777c C_link: e777c.htm At_Next: NO - CAM
Den 29. juli 1943 om formiddagen blev
B17 42-3084 ramt af en tysk jager efter at have passeret
målområdet Kiel (som er
her). Technical Sergeant Earl W. Norlen var
Radio Operator
på
B17 42-3084. (Kilde: AOD) 1 flyver fra
B17 42-3084 blev begravet i Esbjerg, Danmark, 1 i Belgien,
1 i USA
og 6 har ingen kendt grav (5 NET - 1
CAM). 1 flyver blev ført til Tyske
krigsfangelejre. On 29 July 1943 before noon B17 42-3084 was hit by a German fighter after it had been over the target area of Kiel (which is here). MACR about all of the operation of 1st Wing: "207.9 tons of bombs dropped over the shipyards and 767,000 propaganda leaflets unloaded." F/O C. D. Brown, T/Sgt G. W. Diggs, T/Sgt E. W. Norlen, S/Sgt P. G. Pedersen and Sgt J. C. Seigler were reported Missing in Action. Technical Sergeant Earl W. Norlen was the
Radio Operator
of
B17 42-3084. (Source: AOD) 1 airman from
B17 42-3084 was buried in Denmark, 1 in Belgium, 1 in the
USA, and 6 have no known grave (5 NET - 1
CAM). 1 was taken to
German POW-Camps. |