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Good Evening Alain57

Two possible Candidates for Hrdlicka, the only ones that crashed in today`s state of North Rhine Westphalia where the town of Roetgen is also located:

1st Pathfinder Squadron (Prov.) / Martin B-26 B Marauder / # 42-96223 / „Cherie Amie“ / Shot down by Fighter / Crashed near Roggendorf, west of Mechernich, southwest of Euskirchen (Nordrhein-Westfalen) - Germany / Captain Enoch G. Longworth + 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Desauniers + Lieutenant Philip A. Vogel + Captain William G. Wilson + Staff Sergeant Robert R. Aley - KIA / Technical Sergeant George R. Winston - POW

397th B.G. / 596th B.S. / Martin B-26 B-55-MA Marauder / # 42-96144 / „Bank Nite Betty“ / Shot down by Fighter / Crashed near Allmuthen, southeast of Büllingen (Provinz Liège) - Belgium / Captain Mont Stevenson + 2nd Lieutenant John Grappes + Lieutenant Robert Kinney + 2nd Lieutenant Elmar R. Borden + Lieutenant Laverne F. Grundman + Staff Sergeant Lynn Rose + Technical Sergeant William E. Bower + Staff Sergeant Harry H. Watson + Staff Sergeant James V. Galati - KIA

All other 35 B-26 + 1 Invader crashed in Rhineland Palatinate or Luxembourg


 To far away from Roetgen:


391st B.G. / 573rd B.S. / Martin B-26 C-45-MO Marauder / # 42-107747 / Shot down by Fighter / Explosion in the Air / Crashed between Udler and Brockscheid, south-southeast Daun (Rheinland-Pfalz) - Germany / Lieutenant Clayton S. Abraham + Staff Sergeant Woodrow Wilson + Technical Sergeant Floyd R. Lemon + Staff Sergeant Erick Christiansen + Staff Sergeant Melvin E. Murphy - KIA / 2nd Lieutenant Verne H. Bovie - POW

Fred