John
Alfred Ashmead Photo: AS
25 MAY 2015 Updated:
16 AUG 2015
1948 -
Ardennes, BELGIUM
Airman: u047005.htm Surname: Ashmead
Init: J A Rank: 2ndLt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 338
P_link: p298.htm Plane: B17 42-29939 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea
Crash_d: d110444 Buried_d: b080844 C_link: c047.htm At_Next: Korsør
Den 11.april 1944 kl. 13.30 styrtede
B17 42-29939 i Østersøen et sted under et bombetogt til
Poznan (her).
Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"Boeing B-17F 42-29939 (BX- ) 338 BS, 96 BG, 45 CBW, 3 BD, Snetterton Heath,
Norfolk. (Poznan)
585 B-17 fløj til mål i Nordtyskland, og 52 gik tabt. Syd for Bornholm forlod
42-29939 formationen. Det vides ikke nøjagtigt, hvor flyet styrtede ned,
men navigatøren,
2nd Lt John Alfred Ashmead Jr., blev begravet på Korsør
Kirkegaard den 8. august 1944, og den samme dag blev co-piloten,
2nd Lt Thomas Bradford Hilton, begravet
i Warnemünde. Et besætningsmedlem, left
waist gunner, Sgt Wilfred Albert Dennis, nåede at springe ud
med faldskærm og blev samlet op af en tysk hurtigbåd.
Det 11. besætningsmedlem
var en fotograf, S/Sgt Eugene Henry Ryan." (FT 88-40-24)
John A. Ashmead blev indbjerget fra Storebælt den
8. august 1944. (Kilde: Fortegnelse over dødfundne amerikanske flyvere)
Han og 2 andre amerikanske flyvere begravet i Korsør blev opgravet 29. april
1948 for at blive
ført hjem. Han er dog stadig begravet i Belgien. (Kilder: FAF
og ABMC)
Det er på
Ardennes American
Cemetery Plot B Row 39 Grave 5. Han kom i
tjenesten fra Minnesota. Hæderstegn:
Air Medal,
Purple Heart.
(Kilde: ABMC)
1 flyver fra
B17 42-29939 blev begravet i Korsør og 2 i
Belgien. 7 har ingen kendt grav.
1 blev
ført til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Se
B-17 Flyvende
Fæstning, Tegning
af besætningen på en B-17 og
Foto af en B-17 + B-17 i airmen.dk.
11 flyvere.
On 11 April 1944 at 13.30 hours
B17 42-29939 crashed somewhere into the Baltic Sea
on a
bombing raid on Poznan (here).
(Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"Boeing B-17F 42-29939 (BX- ) 338 BS, 96 BG, 45 CBW, 3 BD, Snetterton Heath,
Norfolk. (Poznan)
585 B-17s flew to targets in North Germany and 52 were lost. South of Bornholm (which
is here)
42-29939 left the formation. It is not known exactly where the plane crashed,
but Navigator, 2nd Lt John Alfred Ashmead Jr. was buried in Korsør Cemetery on 8
August 1944. On the same day Co-pilot, 2nd Lt Thomas Bradford Hilton
was buried in Warnemünde. Left Waist Gunner, Sgt Wilfred Albert Dennis managed
to bail out. He was picked up by a German patrol boat. The 11th crew member
was a photographer, S/Sgt Eugene Henry Ryan." (FT 88-40-24)
On 8 August 1944 John A. Ashmead was picked up from the Storebælt and
taken to port. (Source: List of deceased American airmen washed ashore)
On 29 April 1948 he and 2 other American airmen buried in Korsør were
disinterred to be taken home.
However, he still rests in
Ardennes American
Cemetery in BELGIUM. Buried at:
Plot B Row 39 Grave 5.
He entered the Service from: Minnesota. Awards:
Air Medal,
Purple Heart.
(Source: ABMC)
1 airman from
B17 42-29939 was buried in Korsør and 2 in Belgium. 7 have no known grave. 1 was
taken to
German POW-Camps.
This
B-17
belonged to 338
BS, 96 BG, 45 CBW, 3 BD of 8 AF, USAAF. It took off from
RAF Snetterton Heath
- USAAF Station 138.
See 96th Bombardment Group Association *
Drawing of the crew of a
B-17 * Photo of a B-17+ B-17s in airmen.dk.
11 airmen.