[Horst Weber]

North American !

I received my information from the book "Heavy Bombers of the Mighty Eight" by Paul M. Andrews and William H. Adams, Project Bits and Pieces, published by the Eght Air Force Memorial Museum Foundation in 1995.

This book is a very fine and comprehensive work, detailing the fate of almost each 8th AF bomber. They list in a very short, but understabdable form the s/n of the a/c and some more details, in the case of loss the pilot, the case of loss, the MRCA-number and, if happened, the E&E number(s) of the case together with some more short facts.

On my experience, those reports were compiled number by number in the order when the evaders showed up again. For example, there was a loss of a 306th BG B-17 on 6 September 1943 near Rouen, France. Four crews evaded capture. The numbers of those E&E-reports are 169, 173, 179 and 262 and the MACR-number is 518. So, there must be a list.

If you have the number, it is no problem to order it. If you don't have a nnumber of the report, you probably gain more information about the matter at the National Archives. Unfortunately, I have no information about E&E reports of 9th AF and 8th AF Fighter Command.

All the best !

Horst Weber