"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)
og Danzig (Gdansk
her). Både på udturen og hjemturen passerede
formationerne Danmark, hvor tyske jagermaskiner angreb bomberne." (FAF)
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.
2nd Lt (Navigator) Charles M. Stata
har ingen kendt grav.
(Kilde: MACR)
Hans navn findes på Tablets of the Missing,
Cambridge American
Cemetery, England.
Han kom i tjenesten fra Massachusetts. Hæderstegn:
Air Medal, Purple Heart.
(Kilde: ABMC)
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.
Se
B-17 Flyvende
Fæstning
* B17 i airmen.dk *
tegning af besætningen på
en B-17.
10 flyvere.
"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
Danzig
(Gdansk here)
with 378 4-engined bombers. Both on the
way out and the return flight the formations passed Denmark, where German fighters
attacked the bombers." (FAF)
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.
2nd Lt (Navigator) Charles M. Stata
has no known grave. (Source: MACR)
His name is inscribed on Tablets of the Missing
at
Cambridge American
Cemetery, England.
He entered the Service from Massachusetts.
Awards:
Air Medal, Purple Heart.
(Source: ABMC)
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.
This
B-17 belonged to
427 BS, 303
BG, 41 CBW, 1 BD, 8 AF of USAAF. It took off from RAF Molesworth
- USAAF Station 107.
See 303rd Bomb Group Heavy with the
Mission Report No. 76 of Oct
9 1943 about this crew and B17s in airmen.dk and a
drawing of the crew of a
B-17.
10 airmen.
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