Wymond B. Ridge
Photo: AS
25 MAY 2015 Updated:
18 JUN 2015
1948 -
Ardennes, BELGIUM
Airman: u069026.htm
Surname: Ridge Init: W B Rank: S/Sgt Service: USAAF
Sqdn: 728
P_link: p277.htm
Plane: B17 42-31352 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic
Sea
Crash_d: d090444 Buried_d: b230644
C_link: c069.htm At_Next: Odense
Mere end 500 amerikanske bombefly var den 9. april 1944 på bombetogt til Polen
og Tyskland.
Se 8 af de tabte fly:
Google Map 9APR1944.
Den 9. april 1944 styrtede B17 42-32-31352 i Østersøen i
forbindelse med et bombetogt til
Poznan (her),
måske omkring her sydvest for Lolland.
MACR (Rapport om savnet fly) fastslår at flyet
"sidst blev set omkring 54o35'N/11o10'E"
(14 km
sydvest for Rødbyhavn).
Staff Sergeant (Engineer) Wymond B. Ridge blev fundet
drevet ind på Romsø (her)
den 22. juni 1944. Han blev næste dag begravet i Odense.
"Begravelsen fandt sted den 23. juni 1944 kl. 9.15, idet
tyskerne også i dette
tilfælde fremrykkede tidspunktet for bisættelsen, således at ingen officielle
danske embedsmænd fik lejlighed til at deltage.
Fra tysk side deltog kun 5 soldater, hvorfor kirkegårdens personale måtte
deltage i ligbæringen. Jordfæstelsen foregik uden gejstlig medvirken.
Kapellets klokke, der havde lydt ved alle foregående begravelser af allierede
flyvere, lød også denne sidste gang." (FAF)
I maj 1948 blev han og andre
Amerikanske flyvere ført til
Ardennes American
Cemetery i Belgien.
Der blev han begravet,
Plot B Row 39 Grave 7.
Hæderstegn:
Air Medal, Purple Heart.
Han kom i tjeneste fra Indiana.
(Kilde: ABMC)
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 9 April 1944 more than 500 American bombers were on a bombing raid on Poland
and
Germany. See 8 of the lost planes:
Google Map 9APR1944.
On 9 April
1944 B17 42-32-31352 crashed into the Baltic Sea in connection with a bombing
raid
on Poznan (here), maybe about
here south west of Lolland.
The MACR (Missing Air Crew Report) states that it was "last sighted approx. at
54o35'N/11o10'E"
(14 km SW of Rødbyhavn).
Staff Sergeant (Engineer) Wymond B. Ridge was found
drifted ashore on Romsø (here)
on 22 June 1944. On the next day he was buried in Odense.
"The burial took place on 23 June 1944 at 9.15,
as the Germans also in this case hastened the time of the funeral
service, so that no official Danish civil
servant had an opportunity to attend
the ceremony.
From the German side there were only 5 soldiers, so the staff of the cemetery
had to take part in
carrying the coffin. The interment was without
ecclesiastical
assistance.
The bell of the chapel of rest, which had sounded at all previous burials of
allied airmen, also sounded for Ridge, the last allied airman to be buried here." (FAF)
In May 1948 he and other
American airmen from Odense were taken to
Ardennes American
Cemetery in BELGIUM.
He stills rests there.
He entered the Service from: Indiana. Buried at:
Plot B Row 39 Grave 7. Awards:
Air Medal, Purple Heart.
(Source: ABMC)
This
B-17 was from
728 BS,
452 Bomb
Group (Heavy), 45 CBW, 3 BD. See 452nd Bombardment Group.
B-17 42-31352 at
the American Air Museum.
It took off from RAF
Deopham Green - USAAF Station 142. See also B17s in
airmen.dk and a
drawing of the crew of a
B-17.
10 airmen.
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