George J. Oxrider
Photo: AS
25 MAY 2015 Updated:
18 JUN 2015
1948 -
Ardennes, BELGIUM
Airman: u096093.htm Surname: Oxrider
Init: G J Rank: Major 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: b280644
C_link: c096.htm At_Next: Svinø
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).
Co-Pilot, Major George J. Oxrider blev fundet
drevet ind ved Gedser (som er
her) den
26. juni 1944.
Han blev begravet på Svinø Kirkegård den 28. juni 1944. (Kilde: AOD) I 1948 blev han og andre
Amerikanske flyvere fra Svinø flyttet til
Ardennes American
Cemetery
i Belgien. (Kilde: FAF) Kom i tjenesten fra Ohio.
Begravet
på
Ardennes American
Cemetery Plot B Row 24 Grave 18
i BELGIEN.
Hæderstegn:
Air Medal,
Distinguished Flying Cross.
(Kilde: ABMC)
Se Monument for 46 amerikanske flyvere.
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).
Co-Pilot, Major George J. Oxrider was
found drifted ashore near Gedser (which is
here)
on
26 June 1944.
He was buried in Svinø Churchyard on 28 June 1944. (Source: AOD)
See Monument to 46 American airmen.
In 1948 he was disinterred and taken to the
Ardennes American
Cemetery in Belgium
like all other American airmen buried in Svinø.
He
still rests in
Ardennes American
Cemetery
in Belgium.
He
entered the Service from Ohio.
Buried at Plot B Row 24 Grave 18. Awards:
Distinguished Flying Cross,
Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf
Clusters. (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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