Walter T. Reep       Photo: AS 25 MAY 2015   Updated:  18 JUN 2015                                  1948 -           Ardennes, BELGIUM

Airman: u014275.htm Surname: Reep Init: W T Rank: S/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 550

P_link: p198.htm Plane: B17 42-3316 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea off Heligoland

Crash_d: d280743 Buried_d: b270943 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg

Den 28. juli 1943 styrtede B17 42-3316 i Nordsøen ud for Helgoland på udturen af et bombetogt til Warnemünde (her). Hele besætningen omkom.

Staff Sergeant Walter T. Reep var Radio Operator på B17 42-3316. Han blev fundet drevet ind ved Strandlen 1a (her) den 21. september 1943.
Den 27. september 1943 blev han begravet i Esbjerg. (Kilde: FAF og AOD)

Den 30. april 1948 blev han og andre Amerikanske flyvere fra Esbjerg flyttet til
Ardennes American Cemetery i Belgien. (Kilde: FAF)
Kom i tjenesten fra Ohio. Begravet i Plot B Row 25 Grave 4. Hæderstegn: Purple Heart.
(Kilde: ABMC)

1 flyver fra B17 42-3316 blev begravet i Esbjerg, 1 i USA og 7 i Belgien. 1 navn på Mindetavlen, NET.

MACR p196 B17 42-30401: "4 amerikanske bombefly styrtede i Nordsøen mellem den tyske kyst
og Helgoland den morgen." (Måske omkring her).
De 3 af dem må være B17 42-30401 * B17 42-3316 * B17 42-30394.

Se tegning af besætningen på en B-17, Foto af en B-17 + B-17 i airmen.dk samt
B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition og Ball Turret Gunner. 10 flyvere.

On 28 July 1943 B17 42-3316 crashed into the North Sea off Heligoland on the outward flight
of a bombing raid on Warnemünde (here). All of the crew perished.

Staff Sergeant Walter T. Reep was the Radio Operator of B17 42-3316. He was found washed ashore in Beach Area 1a  on 21 September 1943. On 27 September 1943 he was buried in Esbjerg.

On 30 April 1948 he and other American airmen from Esbjerg were taken to Ardennes American Cemetery in BELGIUM. (Source: FAF)
Entered the Service from: Ohio. Buried at: Plot B Row 25 Grave 4. Awards: Purple Heart. (Source: ABMC)

1 airman from B17 42-3316 was buried in Esbjerg,1 in the USA, and 7 airmen in Belgium. 1 NO - NET.

MACR p196 B17 42-30401: "4 USAAF bombers crashed in the North Sea between German Coast and Heligoland that morning." (Maybe about here).
3 of them must be B17 42-30401 * B17 42-3316 * B17 42-30394.

See a drawing of the crew of a B-17 * Photo of  a B-17 + B-17s in airmen.dk * B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition and the story of a Ball Turret Gunner.
550 BS, 385 BG, 93 CBW, 3BD. This B-17 took off from RAF Great Ashfield - USAAF Station 138. 10 airmen.