Joseph Carl Updated: 14 DEC 2011
Airman: o888291.htm Surname: Carl Init: J Rank: S/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 527
P_link: p312.htm Plane: B17 42-31972 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Fliegerhorst Odense
Crash_d: d130544 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
"Piloten foretog en nødlanding, hvor
flyet blev noget beskadiget. Hele besætningen blev taget til fange af tyskerne
to timer senere nær Beldringe." (FT85-79-31)
S/Sgt (Tail Gunner) Joseph Carl
(se the crew of a B-17)
og de andre
besætningsmedlemmer blev sendt til
Dulag Luft Oberursel.
(Kilde: AOD)
Landingen var midt i området (omkring
her ved Lufthavnvej 131, Beldringe, 5270 Odense N) hvor tyskerne et halvt år
før var begyndt at bygge det,
der har haft flere navne: Fliegerhorst Odense - Lunde Flyveplads - Beldringe
Flyveplads - Beldringe Lufthavn - Odense Lufthavn.
Se
Beldringe (Lunde) Flyveplads 1945 og meget mere ved
Historiecenter Beldringe. Nu er det
Odense Lufthavn.
Se Foto af en B-17 + B-17 i airmen.dk.
9 flyvere.
"The pilot made a crash landing,
which damaged the plane. All of the crew were taken prisoners by the Germans two
hours later near Beldringe."
(FT85-79-31)
S/Sgt (Tail Gunner) Joseph Carl
(see the crew of a B-17)
and the other crew members were taken to
Dulag Luft Oberursel.
(Source: AOD)
The landing took place at the centre of the area
(about
here at Lufthavnvej 131, DK-5270 Odense N) where half a year earlier the
Germans had started
the construction of what has had several names: Fliegerhorst
Odense - Lunde Airfield - Beldringe Airfield - Beldringe Airport - Odense
Airport.
See much more at
Historycentre
Beldringe. Also
Odense Airport - Wikipedia
and the modern
Odense
Airport.
B17 42-31972 belonged to
527 BS, 379
BG, 41 CBW, 1 BD. This
B-17 took off
from RAF Kimbolton USAAF
Station 117 on a bombing raid to
Stettin
here.
See
B-17 Flying Fortress, the queen
of the skies and
Photo of a B-17+ B-17s in airmen.dk.
9 airmen.