Carl
Carlson
Photo: AS
25 MAY 2015 Updated:
08 JUL 2022 1948 -
Ardennes, BELGIUM Airman: u019063.htm Surname: Carlson Init: C Rank: 2ndLt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 199 P_link: p246.htm Plane: STI EF154 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Near Hirsholmene Crash_d: d011243 Buried_d: b081243 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn
STI EF154 skulle
kaste miner ved indsejlingen til havnen i
Frederikshavn den 1. december 1943.
2nd Lt Carl Carlson, USAAF, blev sammen
med de andre amerikanske flyvere i Frederikshavn Den nat blev også STI EF191 skudt ned ved Hemmet i forbindelse med en minelægningsoperation, se Minelægningsområder og links derfra. Short Stirling. 7 flyvere.
STI EF154 was to drop mines at the entrance to the
harbour of Frederikshavn on 1 December 1943. The plane was hit by flak and
crashed
in the drop zone between Frederikshavn and the islands
Hirsholmene about
here.
The bodies of 3 crew members were recovered shortly after the crash, and Together
with the other American airmen in Frederikshavn Cemetery, 2nd Lt Carl Carlson USAAF
He still rests in
Ardennes American
Cemetery
in Belgium.
He
entered the Service from: Connecticut.
That night also STI EF191 crashed at Hemmet in connection
with a minelaying operation, See
No. 199 Squadron
RAF- Wikipedia *
Short Stirling. This Stirling
took off from
RAF Lakenheath. |