Frank L. Boyd                                                                                     Updated:  30 JAN 2015

Airman: u050045.htm Surname: Boyd Init: F L Rank: S/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 333

P_link: p194.htm Plane: B17 42-30450 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d260743 Buried_d: b280943 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig

Den 26. juli 1943 kl. 14.43 blev et amerikansk bombefly skudt ned over Helgolands-bugten (omkring her). Kun 1 flyver overlevede. (Kilde: FAF)

Staff Sergeant Frank L. Boyd var Tail Gunner på B17 42-30450. Den 23. september 1943 blev han fundet drevet ind ved Strandlen 18 (her).
Han blev begravet i Lemvig den 28. september 1943 af sognepræst Carl Lund. (Kilder: FAF og AOD)

Som andre amerikanske flyvere begravet i Lemvig blev han den 4. maj 1948 gravet op og overført til Ardennes American Cemetery i Belgien. (Kilde: AOD)
Der er intet synligt minde for dem i Lemvig. Hans navn er ikke i registret hos ABMC, så mest sandsynligt blev han begravet på en privat kirkegård i USA.

2 flyvere fra B17 42-30450 blev begravet i Lemvig og 1 i Esbjerg. 2 blev begravet i Belgien og 4 har ingen kendt grav. 1 flyver blev krigsfange.

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 26 July 1943 at 14.43 hours an American bomber was shot down over the Bay of Heligoland (about here). Only 1 airman survived. (Source: FAF)

Staff Sergeant Frank L. Boyd was the Tail Gunner of B17 42-30450. On 23 September 1943 he was found washed ashore in Beach Area 18 (here)
On 28 September 1943 he was buried in Lemvig. Vicar Carl Lund officiated at the graveside ceremony. (Sources: FAF and AOD)

Like other American airmen buried in Lemvig he was disinterred and taken to Ardennes American Cemetery in BELGIUM on 4 May 1948. (Source: AOD)
There is no memorial to them in Lemvig. His name is not in the ABMC records, so most likely he was buried in a private cemetery in the U.S.A.

2 airmen from B17 42-30450 were buried in Lemvig and 1 in Esbjerg. 2 were buried in BELGIUM and 4 have no known grave. 1 airman became a POW.

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.

333 BS, 94 BG, 4 BW, 3 BD, 8 AF. See 94th Bomb Group. It took off from RAF Rougham - USAAF Station 468.
10 airmen.