B-24 Liberator identification
 

Hi everyone!

I have a picture bought from ebay not long ago that s shows a B-24 ditched in snow. The seller think this is a plane went down in Norway.
Could anybody confirm or give me hints about the plane?

Sorry for the bad picture , taken with a Canon EOS 450.

Re: B-24 Liberator identification
 

The plane is from the 15th AF, 459th Bomb Group.
http://www.459bg.org/459th_Bombardment_Group.cfm


There are a few options as to which aircraft it could be, 42-513??.

757th B. S. http://www.459bg.org/757th_Squadron_Airplanes.cfm
758th B.s. http://www.459bg.org/758th_Squadron_Airplanes.cfm

Regards,
Mike

Re: B-24 Liberator identification
 

Hi Mike!
One step closer to unsolve the mystery.

Thanks!

John

Re: B-24 Liberator identification
 

John Fredrik,
looks like you have only two options: 757 Sqn #42-51344 Lucky Lady
MACR 11065 Jan 15 1945 in Hungary

and 758th Sqn with # 42-51382 MACR 12360 on Feb 2 1945 in Austria.

There was another one in the BG with # 42-51341 but no incidents reported.
good luck
sealander

Re: B-24 Liberator identification
 

Just to add,
in Austria it crashed near Staudach-Leoning ...pilot L.L. Lowry;
in HUnagry the plane crashed near East of Balaton...pilot C.J. Llindstrom

Re: B-24 Liberator identification
 

Bonjour,
Le B-24 est probablement celui de LINDSTROM.
Sur la photo :
- Serial 42-513??
- 459th BG
- Belly landing
- Neige

Sur le MACR 11065 :
- Serial 42-51344
- B-24 459th BG
- Equipage RTD
- Janvier 45 (neige)


http://i50.tinypic.com/jjqqe8.jpg

LAIDVOISIN

Re: B-24 Liberator identification
 

Hello to all
For information #42-51344 crashed at Ludbreg (Croatia) around noon
Regards
Phil

Re: B-24 Liberator identification
 

At a guess, I would say that the soldiers in the photo are Hungarian and I guess that it would be easier to find a place to crash land on the plains of Hungry than in Croatia

Re: B-24 Liberator identification
 

Sorry , pilot was captured there the 19th

Re: B-24 Liberator identification
 

Hi all,
i find this thread really interesting, as one American bomber went down just outside my home village Sveti Djurdj (was Sveti Gjurgj back then) in the last few months of WW2.
My place is only 3 km away from Ludbreg (and around 20 km from Hungary) so I suppose that Charles Lindstrom and his crew landed only a few hundred meters by my house.

It's interesting that radio was still working and a man from a village used it to listen radio programmes (live football games transmissions) for a number of years after the WW2.

I've been searching for additional informations about that crash, but without any major success.

All the best,

Stjepan from Croatia