Harry Cliffe Updated: 17 AUG 2015
Airman: o888596.htm Surname: Cliffe Init: H T Rank: 1stLt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 323
P_link: p232.htm Plane: B17 42-30772 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea
Crash_d: d091043 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
"Den 9. oktober 1943 angreb USAAF med 378 4-motorede bombefly flyfabrikker i den østlige del af Polen og Østpreussen, samt havnefaciliteter i Gdynia og Danzig. Både på udturen og hjemturen passerede formationerne Danmark, hvor tyske jagermaskiner angreb bomberne." (FAF)
Under en mission til Anklam i Tyskland den 9. oktober 1943 styrtede en
”Flyvende Fæstning” B17 42-30772 i Østersøen.
2nd Lt Harry T. Cliffe
var Navigator på B17 42-30772.
Han var den ene af de to
overlevende.
6 flyvere fra
B17 42-30772 har ingen kendt grav - se navne i
CAM. 1 blev begravet i
Søby og 1 i USA. 2 blev reddet og sendt til Tyske
krigsfangelejre.
"On 9 October, 1943 USAAF attacked aircraft factories in the eastern part of Poland and East Prussia together with harbour facilities in Gdynia and Danzig with 378 4-engined bombers. Both on the way out and the way home the formations passed Denmark, where German fighters attacked the bombers." (FAF)
During a bombing raid to Anklam in Germany on 9 October, 1943 a ”Flying
Fortress”
B17 42-30772
crashed in the Baltic Sea.
2nd Lt Harry T. Cliffe
was the Navigator of B17 42-30772.
He was one of the two survivors.
6 airmen from
B17 42-30772 have no known grave - see names at
CAM. 1 was buried in Søby
and 1 in the USA. 2 were rescued and taken to
German POW-Camps.
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