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 Den 28. juli 1943 nødlandede
B17 42-30394 på Nordsøen ud for Tyskland. Tyske
jagere havde beskadiget flyet, der var på bombetogt til
Oschersleben Airfield.
1 flyver fra
B17 42-30394 blev begravet i Kirkeby på Rømø og 1 i
Esbjerg, 1 i Belgien og 1 i USA. 6 flyvere overlevede. De blev alle krigsfanger.
Technical Sergeant Donald E. Colvin
var Top Turret Gunner på
B17 42-30394. Han og 5 andre flyvere overlevede 6
timer i vandet. (Kilde: AOD)
Han blev ført
til Tyske
krigsfangelejre. Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf nær Krems i Østrig. Se
WWII POWs.
MACR p196
B17 42-30401: "4 amerikanske bombefly styrtede i
Nordsøen mellem den tyske kyst og Helgoland den morgen." (Måske omkring
her).
De 3 af dem må være B17 42-30401 *
B17 42-3316 * B17 42-30394.
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 28 July 1943
B17 42-30394 ditched into the North Sea off Germany.
German fighters had damaged the plane on its raid on
Oschersleben Airfield.
1 airman from
B17 42-30394 was buried in Kirkeby on Rømø and 1 in
Esbjerg, 1 in BELGIUM and 1 in the USA. 6 airmen survived. All of them became
POWs.
Technical Sergeant Donald E. Colvin was the Top Turret Gunner of
B17 42-30394. He and 5 other airmen survived 6 hours
in the water. (Source: AOD)
He was taken
to
German POW-Camps.
Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near
Krems Austria. See
WWII POWs.
MACR p196
B17 42-30401: "4 USAAF bombers crashed in the North
Sea between German Coast and Heligoland that morning." (Maybe
about
here).
3 of them must be B17 42-30401 *
B17 42-3316 * B17 42-30394.
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
339 BS, 96
BG, 45 CBW, 3 BD * 96th Bombardment Group
Association. This
B-17 took off
from RAF Snetterton
Heath - USAAF Station 138.
10 airmen.
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