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Old 20th February 2009, 15:54
Peglar Peglar is offline
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Re: Lt. Darwin Nichols-African-American aircrew?

Fallnummer: 12-1457
Tatdatum: 27-03-1945
1 U.S. airman, erschossen in Gefangenschaft, bei Gießen, Landkreis Gießen, Gießen.
1. Grablage: Gießen
2. Grablage: U.S. Military Cemetery Ardennes, Belgien.
2nd Lieutenant Darwin R. Nichols, O-770738 OREG
3. Grablage: U.S. Military Cemetery Ardennes, Belgien.
351st BG(H), 511th BS(H), US 8th AF(H)

Was shot and fell in the Lahn River. Identified in June 1945.
Had been a prisoner in the Gestapo jail at Gießen for about 7 months.

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