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Old 10th August 2021, 18:25
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Re: Parachute jump on 22.02.1944 in Niederkassel, near Cologne / Crew wanted

http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/7239

B-17 42-39857, 351st BG, 511th BS,

MACR 2656: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/90926811

MACR also here: https://www.fold3.com/image/28615359

Fort log has this on the plane:

"Delivered Long Beach 23/9/43; Walla Walla 9/11/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 26/10/43; transferred 511BS/351BG [DS-H] Polebrook 18/11/43; 16m Missing in Action Ashersleben 22/2/44 with John Pugh, Co-pilot: Bob Hart, Navigator: Bill Schmitz, Bombardier: Rich Gilbert, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ralph Broide, Radio Operator: John Seuer, Ball turret gunner: Isaac Guest, Waist gunner: Nick Mustacchia, Waist gunner: Adam Quinn,Tail gunner: Carter Gibson (10 Prisoner of War); shot down by enemy aircraft, crash landed Bernburg area, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2656. BELLE OF THE BALL."

Note the MACR has a last seen location near Bernburg but really does not state where it crash-landed. The MACR is incomplete. All the crew were POWs and all survived the war. Because all survived, probably no post-war questionnaires were mailed to the survivors. (I.E., nobody was missing.) The MACR has no statements from the crew.

Mission Report from the 351st BG site: http://www.351st.org/351stMissions/M...Mission83.html

This link says the plane crash-landed near Höxter (search for 42-39857): http://www.fredtrendle.de/images/pdf...r-1944-Tag.pdf

Last edited by RSwank; 11th August 2021 at 02:31.
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