Foy G. Hartzog Updated: 08 JUN 2015
Airman: e777664.htm Surname: Hartzog Init: F G Rank: T/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 427
P_link: p236.htm Plane: B17 425221 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea
Crash_d: d091043 Buried_d: e777c C_link: e777c.htm At_Next: NO - CAM
"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)
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.
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.
"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
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.
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. |