P51B 42-106978 - The Baltic Sea Updated: 17 AUG 2021
Airman | Surname | Init | Rank | Service | Sqdn | P_link | Plane | Operation | Crash_site | Crash_d | Buried_d | C_link | At_Next |
o888605.htm | Unknown | X | xx | USAAF | 364 | p457.htm | P51 106978 | Bomb G | The Baltic Sea | d040844 | o888 | o888.htm | POW |
"4 august 1944 (kl. 1545), S for Keldsnor på
Langeland. P-51B, 42-106978 (C5- ), 364 FS, 357 FG, 66 FW.
Umiddelbart efter at
formationen forlod
Kiel fik piloten motorproblemer og fløj mod Langeland for at
springe med faldskærm. Se P-51 Mustang - Photos. Flere links i engelsk version.
The pilot had engine trouble right after the formation had left
Kiel. He flew
towards Langeland to bail out. Nobody from the American formation saw his
parachute, but he is recorded as a survivor captured in the sea off Keldsnor.
The Danish Civil Air Defence has recorded the air crash as a German fighter off
Keldsnor Lighthouse (here)." 3 BD, 66 FW, 357 FG, 364 FS. See P-51 Mustang - Photos. |