Melvin F. Callaway
Photo: AS 05 MAY 2016
Updated:
30 AUG 2016
Airman: u079003.htm Surname: Callaway
Init: M F Rank: S/Sgt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 366
P_link: p336.htm
Plane: B17 42107105 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea S of
Lolland Crash_d: d040844 Buried_d: b240844
C_link: c079.htm At_Next: Rødby
Den 4. august 1944 kl. 15.50 styrtede
B17 107105 i Østersøen syd
for Gedser (måske omkring
her)
på hjemvejen fra et bombetogt til Anklam (her)
(Kilde: MACR)
Staff Sergeant Melvin F. Callaway var Ball
Turret Gunner på B17 107105. (Kilde: MACR)
Den 23. august 1944 blev han fundet i Femern Bælt (omkring
her) af
fisker Ejner Larsen.
Han blev begravet på Rødby Kirkegård den 24. august 1944 af sognepræst Roed
Jensen. (Kilde:FAF)
"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)
Efter krigen blev han og andre
Amerikanske flyvere flyttet til
Ardennes American
Cemetery i Belgien. (Kilde: FAF)
Hans navn er ikke i registret hos ABMC,
så mest sandsynligt blev han begravet på en privat kirkegård i USA.
4 flyvere fra B17 107105 blev
begravet på Svinø Kirkegård og 1 i Rødby. 2 er begravet i USA og
1 har ingen kendt grav. 1 flyver blev krigsfange. 9 flyvere.
On 4 August 1944 at 1550 hours
B17 107105 crashed into the Baltic Sea south of Gedser
(maybe about
here) on the return flight of a bombing raid on Anklam (here).
(Source: MACR)
Staff Sergeant Melvin F. Callaway was the
Ball Turret Gunner of B17 107105. (Source: MACR)
He was found in the Fehmarn Belt (about
here) by
fisherman Ejner Larsen on 23 August 1944.
On 24 August 1944 he was buried in Rødby Churchyard by vicar Roed Jensen. (Source:
FAF)
"Gravestone with names of 3 American airmen. 2 of them were taken home in
1948.
Charles Haswell, buried 22.7. 1944, is the only of the airmen, who still rests
here.
The gravestone is erected by The Danish Defence Brothers, Rødby branch, 15.6.
1945." (KM)
Like nearly all other American airmen
buried in Denmark he was taken to
Ardennes American
Cemetery.
His name
is not in the
ABMC
records, so most likely he was buried in a private cemetery in the U.S.A.
See
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.
This B-17 was from
366th Bomb
Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, 40 Combat Bombardment Wing, 1st Bombardment
Division of the 8 AF, USAAF.
See also 305th Bomb Group.
It took off from RAF
Chelveston - USAAF Station 105.
9 airmen.
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