B 17G 42-38191 - The Baltic Sea south of Lolland Updated: 12 AUG 2021
Airman | Surname | Init | Rank | Service | Sqdn | P_link | Plane | Operation | Crash_site | Crash_d | Buried_d | C_link | At_Next |
o888096.htm | Barbour | L H | 2ndLt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | o888 | o888.htm | POW |
e777717.htm | Cole | H H | T/Sgt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | e777c | e777c.htm | NO - CAM |
a079002.htm | Haswell | C L | S/Sgt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | b220744 | c079.htm | Rødby |
e777719.htm | Hawk | R G | T/Sgt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | e777c | e777c.htm | NO - CAM |
u081001.htm | Hick | T E | S/Sgt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | b260744 | c081.htm | (Sandby) |
e777718.htm | Hohman | W P | S/Sgt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | e777c | e777c.htm | NO - CAM |
e777716.htm | James Jr. | G R | 2ndLt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | e777c | e777c.htm | NO - CAM |
e777720.htm | McNeer | C J | S/Sgt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | e777c | e777c.htm | NO - CAM |
e777715.htm | Raring | J J | 1stLt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | e777c | e777c.htm | NO - CAM |
e777714.htm | Rupert | M D | 1stLt | USAAF | 350 | p320.htm | B17 4238191 | Bomb G | Sea S of Lolland | d190544 | e777c | e777c.htm | NO - CAM |
495 B-17 fra 1. og 3. BD angreb
Berlin +
mere, og 16 fly
gik tabt. Syd for Lolland blev 100 BG angrebet af tyske jagere, og der udbrød
brand i flyets forreste del.
"Fra Rødbyhavn så man midt på eftermiddagen den 19. maj 1944 3 fly styrte i
Østersøen. I 3 tilfælde observeredes udfoldede faldskærme. "En af flyets skytter, C.L. Haswell, blev den 20.
juli 1944 kl. 15 fundet som lig i Østersøen 12 km vest for Rødbyhavn af fisker
C. Johansen.
Thomas E. Hick blev fundet i vandet ved Vejlø i Nakskov Fjord den 24.
juli 1944, måske omkring
her.
7 flyvere fra
B17 42-38191
har ingen kendt grav, 1 blev begravet i Rødby og 1 i Sandby. 1 flyver blev
krigsfange og sendt til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Read about
Aage Astrup and McDougall's treatment of 3 wounded
American airmen in 1944: Earl F. Green *
Charles F. Hopper * Lynn H.
Barbour In the
middle of the afternoon on 19 May 1944 people saw from the harbour in Rødby 3
planes crash into the Baltic Sea. Parachutes were seen in "On 20 July
1944 at 3 p.m. one of
the gunners of the plane, C.L. Haswell, was found
dead in the Baltic Sea 12 km west of the harbour in Rødby
Thomas E. Hick was found in the water at Vejlø in the Nakskov Fjord on 24 July,
1944, maybe around
here.
7 airmen from
B17 42-38191 have no known
grave, 1 was buried in Rødby and 1 in Sandby. 1 airmen was captured and taken to
German POW-Camps. |