Bruce Kreischer                                                                                      Updated:  30 JAN 2015

Airman: o888581.htm Surname: Kreischer Init: B Rank: 2ndLt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 333

P_link: p194.htm Plane: B17 42-30450 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d260743 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW

Den 26. juli 1943 kl. 14.43 blev et amerikansk bombefly skudt ned over Helgolands-bugten (omkring her). Kun 1 flyver overlevede. (Kilde: FAF)

2nd Lieutenant Bruce Kreischer var Co-Pilot på B17 42-30450. (Kilde: AOD) Bruce M. Kreischer fra Ohio blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Stalag Luft 3 Sagan. (Flyttet til Nürnberg-Langwasser) Se WWII POWs.


2 flyvere fra B17 42-30450 blev begravet i Lemvig og 1 i Esbjerg. 2 blev begravet i Belgien og 4 har ingen kendt grav. 1 flyver blev krigsfange.

Se tegning af besætningen på en B-17, Foto af en B-17 + B-17 i airmen.dk samt B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition og Ball Turret Gunner.

10 flyvere.

On 26 July 1943 at 14.43 hours an American bomber was shot down over the Bay of Heligoland (about here). Only 1 airman survived. (Source: FAF)

2nd Lieutenant Bruce Kreischer was the Co-Pilot of B17 42-30450. (Source: AOD) Bruce M. Kreischer from Ohio was taken to German POW-Camps.
Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) See WWII POWs.

2 airmen from
B17 42-30450 were buried in Lemvig and 1 in Esbjerg. 2 were buried in BELGIUM and 4 have no known grave. 1 airman became a POW.

See a drawing of the crew of a B-17 * Photo of  a B-17 + B-17s in airmen.dk * B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition and the story of a Ball Turret Gunner.

333 BS, 94 BG, 4 BW, 3 BD, 8 AF. See 94th Bomb Group. It took off from RAF Rougham - USAAF Station 468.

10 airmen.