Richard F. Gall                                                                                          Updated:  25 JAN 2015

Airman: u003027.htm Surname: Gall Init: R F Rank: 2ndLt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 700

P_link: p330.htm Plane: B24 42-50329 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Lillebælt.

Crash_d: d210644 Buried_d: b120744 C_link: c003.htm At_Next: Assens

Under et bombetogt til Berlin styrtede B24 42-50329 i havet ved Årø i Lillebælt (omkring her - Kilde: AOD) efter at de 10 flyvere var sprunget ud med faldskærm.

Se mere om en B-24 Liberator, som er større end en B-17 Flyvende Fæstning.

R.F. Gall drev i land som lig ved Helnæs. Han blev begravet i Assens den 12. juli 1944.

Den 28. april 1948 blev han og andre Amerikanske flyvere fra Assens flyttet til Ardennes American Cemetery i Belgien. (Kilde: FAF)
Der er intet synligt minde for dem på Assens Kirkegård.
Hans navn er ikke i registret hos ABMC, så mest sandsynligt blev han begravet på en privat kirkegård i USA.

På Årø er dette monument for de omkomne. (Kilde: FAF)
10 flyvere. 

During a bombing raid to Berlin B24 42-50329 crashed in the sea at Årø in Lillebælt (about here - Source: AOD) after the 10 airmen had bailed out.

See more about a B-24 Liberator, bigger than a  B-17 Flying Fortress.

The body of R.F. Gall drifted ashore on Helnæs. He was buried in Assens on 12 July, 1944.
On 28 April 1948 he and other American airmen buried in Assens were disinterred and taken to Ardennes American Cemetery in BELGIUM. (Source: FAF)
There is no memorial to them in Assens New Cemetery.
His name is not in the ABMC records, so most likely he was buried in a private cemetery in the U.S.A.

This monument to the perished airmen is erected on Årø. (Source: FAF) See also memorial stone to William J. Mulligan in Sandager Churchyard.

This B-24 belonged to 700 BS, 445 BG, 2 CBW, 2 BD, 8 AF. See 445th Bomb Group (Heavy). It took off from RAF Tibenham - USAAF Station 124. 10 airmen.