
Andrew A. Dyke Photo:
AS 05 MAY 2016
Photo: AS
25 MAY 2015 Updated:
30 AUG 2016
Andrew A. Dyke 1948 -
Ardennes, B
Airman: u079001.htm
Surname: Dyke Init: A A Rank: T/Sgt Service: USAAF
Sqdn: 427 P_link: p236.htm
Plane: B17 42-5221 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic
Sea Crash_d: d091043 Buried_d: b201143
C_link: c079.htm At_Next: Rødby
Under et bombetogt til Anklam (her) i Tyskland den 9. oktober 1943 styrtede en
”Flyvende Fæstning” B17
42-5221
i Østersøen syd for Lolland, måske omkring
her. Tilsyneladende omkom hele besætningen, 10 mand.
Liget af flyets maskinist, A.A. Dyke, blev den 19. november 1943 fundet 4
sømil fra
Rødbyhavn af fisker Viggo Hansen, Nysted, i kutter N. 52 ”Minna”. Flyveren
blev begravet den 20. november 1943 af katolsk præst Klessens fra Maribo.
(Kilde: FAF)
Efter krigen blev han ført til Belgien.
Han kom i tjeneste fra New York.
Begravet i
Ardennes American
Cemetery Row 39 Grave 17. Hæderstegn:
Air Medal, Purple Heart.
(Kilde: ABMC)
"Gravsten med navnene på 3 amerikanske
flyvere, hvoraf de 2 blev hjemført i 1948. Charles L. Haswell, begravet
22.7.1944, er dermed den eneste af flyverne, der fortsat er begravet på stedet.
Gravstenen er rejst af De Danske Forsvarsbrødre, Rødby afd., 15.6.1945." (KM)
7 flyvere fra
B17 42-5221 har ingen kendt grav. 1 blev begravet i
Tyskland, 1 i Rødby og 1 i Esbjerg.
Alle 3 blev senere flyttet til Belgien eller
USA. Se
B-17 Flyvende
Fæstning*
B17 i airmen.dk*besætningen
på en B-17. 10 flyvere.
During a bombing raid to Anklam
(here)
in Germany on 9 October 1943 a ”Flying
Fortress” B17 42-5221 crashed in
the Baltic Sea south of
Lolland, maybe about
here.
Apparently all of the crew, 10 men, perished.
The body of Flight Engineer A.A. Dyke was found on 19 November 1943 4 nautical
miles from
Rødbyhavn by
fisherman Viggo Hansen, Nysted, in cutter N. 52 “Minna”. The
airman was buried on 20 November, 1943 by Catholic
priest
Klessens from Maribo.
(Source: FAF) After the war he was taken to
Belgium. He entered the Service from
New York.
He is buried in
Ardennes American
Cemetery in BELGIUM at
Plot B Row 39 Grave 17.Awards:
Air Medal, Purple Heart.
(ABMC)
"Gravestone with names of 3 American airmen. 2 of them were taken home in
1948.
Charles L. Haswell, buried 22.7. 1944, is the only one of the airmen who still
rests here.
The gravestone was erected by The Danish Defence Brothers, Rødby branch, 15.6.
1945." (KM)
7 airmen from
B17 42-5221 have no known grave. 1 was buried in Germany,
1 in Rødby and 1 in Esbjerg. All 3 of them were later moved to Belgium or the USA.
This
B-17 belonged to
427 BS, 303
BG, 41 CBW, 1 BD, 8 AF of USAAF. It took off from RAF Molesworth
- USAAF Station 107.
See 303rd Bomb Group Heavy with the
Mission Report No. 76 of Oct
9 1943 about this crew and B17s in airmen.dk and a
drawing of the crew of a
B-17.
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