Richard R. Plant                                                                                       Updated:  04 JAN 2012

Airman: o888134.htm Surname: Plant Init: R R Rank: 1stLt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 700

P_link: p330.htm Plane: B24 42-50329 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Lillebælt

Crash_d: d210644 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW

Under et bombetogt til Berlin styrtede B24 42-50329 i havet ved Årø i Lillebælt (omkring her - Kilde: AOD) efter at de 10 flyvere var sprunget ud med faldskærm.

Se mere om en B-24 Liberator, som er større end en B-17 Flyvende Fæstning.

1st Lt (Pilot) Richard R. Plant landede på Årø. Han blev såret, da han ramte jorden. Han fik hjælp fra en dansk læge, inden tyskerne tog ham til et felthospital i Vojens.
Han blev sendt til forhør i Dulag Luft Oberursel. Ved krigens slutning blev han befriet fra krigsfangelejren ved Moosburg. (Kilde: AOD)

På Årø er dette monument for de omkomne. (Kilde: FAF) 10 flyvere.

During a bombing raid to Berlin B24 42-50329 crashed in the sea at Årø in Lillebælt (about here - Source: AOD) after the 10 airmen had bailed out.

See more about a B-24 Liberator, bigger than a  B-17 Flying Fortress.

1st Lt (Pilot) Richard R. Plant landed on Aarø. He was injured, when he hit the ground. He was helped by a Danish doctor, before the Germans took him to a
German field hospital in Vojens. He was sent to interrogations in Dulag Luft Oberursel. At the end of the war he was liberated from the POW Camp at Moosburg. (Source: AOD)

This monument to the perished airmen is erected on Årø. (Source: FAF) See also memorial stone to William J. Mulligan in Sandager Churchyard.

This B-24 belonged to 700 BS, 445 BG, 2 CBW, 2 BD, 8 AF. See 445th Bomb Group (Heavy). It took off from RAF Tibenham - USAAF Station 124. 10 airmen.