Damon D. Cottingham                                                                           Updated:  28 JUL 2014
 

Airman: o888629.htm Surname: Cottingham Init: D D Rank: S/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 333

P_link: p200.htm Plane: B17 42-0146 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Avedøre

Crash_d: d290743 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW

B17 42-30146 nødlandede her på flyvepladsen i Avedøre den 29. juli 1943. Se historien ved flyet.

Nu er Avedøre Gl. Flyveplads, Gl. Køge Landevej 580, 2660 Brøndby Strand, indkørsel her, hjemsted for Aeronautisk Aktivitetscenter Avedøre.

Staff Sergeant Damon D. Cottingham var Flexible Gunner på B17 42-30146. (Kilde: MACR) Se tegning af besætningen på en B-17.
Han blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre - Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Schlesien Bayern (Flyttet til Nürnberg-Langwasser) (Kilde: US National Archives med WWII POWs)

Se Foto af en B-17 + B-17 i airmen.dk.

10 flyvere.
 

B17 42-30146 crash landed here on the airfield in Avedøre on 29 July 1943. See the story at the plane.

Now the old airfield at Gl. Køge Landevej 580, 2660 Brøndby Strand, way in here, is a center for associations connected with aviation, including the AAA.

Staff Sergeant Damon D. Cottingham was a Flexible Gunner of B17 42-30146. (Source: MACR) See the drawing of the crew of a B-17.
He was taken to German POW-Camps - Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) (Source: US National Archives with WWII POWs)

This B-17 belonged to 333 BS, 94 BG, 4 BW, 3 BD, 8 AF. See 94th Bomb Group. It took off from Bury St. Edmunds - USAAF Station 468.
See Photo of a B-17+ B-17s in airmen.dk. 

10 airmen.