US airman buried Coxyde cemetery Belgium april 28 1944
 

Hello ,

On april 28 1944 a US airman by the name DASIT was buried at the Coxyde cemetery in Belgium in grave nr 152. He must have a crewmember of a B-17 who came at Ostend the previous day. Who can help mewith some more info ?

Regards
Alain57

Re: US airman buried Coxyde cemetery Belgium april 28 1944
 

MACR 4299 for B-17 42-107197 of 447th BG has several pages of German documents concercing the fate of the crew (3 KIA, 7 POW). Only one POW was really identified by the Germans then, the tail gunner, Ernie Hernandez, who was buried at Coxyde on 28 April 1944 (grave 151) next to a crew identified by the Germans as Dasit (grave 152) and to another totally unidentified (grave 150).

On page 8 of the MACR, a copy of German report KU 1659, names are hand written next to both Dasit and the unknown man: Dasit is identified as Capt Ashley Guynn (the pilot) and the unknown as John Thomas, the flight engineer. These notes are in English and were very probably written after the war by the team searching the crew and say Guynn was identified thanks to a "tag ???(unreadable) on body". Noting similar for Thomas, who was probably identified as he was the only remaining unidentified body and only remaining MIA for this crew.

Relevant pages on fold3:
https://www.fold3.com/image/28630943...dasit,world,ii
https://www.fold3.com/image/28630874...dasit,world,ii
https://www.fold3.com/image/28630933...dasit,world,ii

Re: US airman buried Coxyde cemetery Belgium april 28 1944
 

Goodevening ,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Regards
Alain57

Re: US airman buried Coxyde cemetery Belgium april 28 1944
 

Alain,
When reading the name Guynn, I remembered a story I read a long time ago.
You'll find most of it here: https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthrea...-photos-Forums
Just look for the name Guynn.

Groet,
Leendert