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 Den 28. juli 1943 nødlandede
B17 42-30394 på Nordsøen ud for Tyskland. Tyske
jagere havde beskadiget flyet, der var på bombetogt til
Oschersleben Airfield.
1 flyver fra
B17 42-30394 blev begravet i Kirkeby på Rømø og 1 i
Esbjerg, 1 i Belgien og 1 i USA. 6 flyvere overlevede. De blev alle krigsfanger.
Sergeant Charles Edward Deffendoll var
Right Waist Gunner eller Tail Gunner på
B17 42-30394. Han gik ned med flyet. Den 2. september
1943 blev han fundet
drevet ind på Rømø (som er
her). Han
blev begravet på Kirkeby Kirkegård på Rømø den 4. september 1943. I
1948 blev han og andre Amerikanske flyvere fra
Kirkeby flyttet til
Ardennes American
Cemetery i Belgien. (Kilde: FAF og AOD)
Hans navn er ikke i registret hos ABMC,
så mest sandsynligt blev han begravet på en privat kirkegård i USA.
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 42-30394 ditched into the North Sea off Germany.
German fighters had damaged the plane on its raid on
Oschersleben Airfield.
1 airman from
B17 42-30394 was buried in Kirkeby on Rømø and 1 in
Esbjerg, 1 in BELGIUM and 1 in the USA. 6 airmen survived. All of them became
POWs.
Sergeant Charles Edward Deffendoll was
the Right Waist Gunner or the Tail Gunner of
B17 42-30394. He went down with the plane. On 2
September 1943
he was found washed ashore on Rømø (which is
here). On 4
September 1943 he was buried in Kirkeby Churchyard on Rømø.
In 1948 he and other American airmen buried in
Kirkeby were disinterred and taken to
Ardennes American
Cemetery
in BELGIUM. (Source: FAF and AOD)
His name
is not in the
ABMC
records, so most likely he was buried in a private cemetery in the U.S.A.
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
339 BS, 96
BG, 45 CBW, 3 BD * 96th Bombardment Group
Association. This
B-17 took off
from RAF Snetterton
Heath - USAAF Station 138.
10 airmen.
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