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Re: researching three MACRs
Hello Pierre,
Here are the details from "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Force" vol 2
MACR 3479 page 345.
B-17G-15-BO
42-31363
306BG/368BS
T/O Thurleigh, assigned target St. Jean d' Angely airfield, France. Shot down by flak about three miles west of Hourtin, 37 miles northwest of Bordeaux, France. At 1500 hrs, Lt. Fix ditched the a/c in the Bay of Biscay after the Now 3 and 4 engines had been lost on the bomb run. All crew were picked up by a German seaplane after several hours in the water, and sent to an Air Force Hospital in Bordeaux.
10 pow.
Names-
P. 1Lt. Rene C. Fix
CP. 2Lt. Weldon B. Grants.
N. 2Lt. Peter G. Kenny Jr.
B. 2Lt. Charles F. Hill.
E. Sgt. Eugene C. Engberg.
RO. S/Sgt. David L. Stoddard.
BTG. Sgt. Rudolph W. Phillips.
LWG. Sgt. Alvin E. Naumann.
RWG. Sgt. Frank A. Pfeiffer.
TG. Sgt. Wade S. McRary.
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