  
Fra P51 44-12152
Fotos taget på
Middelfart Museum.
 From P51 44-12152
Photos taken at
Middelfart Museum.
"On 3 April 1945 P51K "Mustang" no. 44-12152 from 3rd Scouting Force, USAF
crashed into the bird sanctuary at Gamborg, presumably after "friendly fire"
from other American Mustangs on their return flight from a raid on Germany.
Neither German nor other allied planes have been found in the air space at
that time.
Pilot, 1st Lt John A. Stein Jr. was killed.
Later he was taken to the
Ardennes American
Cemetery and Memorial, Neuville-en-Condroz.
The tail wheel and the cover of the
machine guns in a wing was picked up after the crash.
For a number of years the wheel was used on a wheelbarrow on a farm in
Gamborg.
It appears that the aluminium cover (gun bay door) was hit by two
shots.
Unspent
machine gun ammunition, cal. 12.7 MM in a belt, was also picked up near
the crash site." (Text translated by AS) |
