And the other one:
On May 7th, 1945, B17G
44-8640 took off from Horham Airfield, an Eighth Air Force base in Suffolk, to take part in a 'Chowhound' mission over German occupied Holland. These missions, to drop supplies and food to Dutch civilians in German occupied territory, were carried out by the RAF and American forces, the German authorities having given safe passage to these humanitarian flights. On the return leg 48640 overflew the Dutch port of Ijmuiden, then a German E-boat base, and was fired on by an SS machine gun unit, which scored hits on the aircraft including No 2 engine which caught fire. The aircraft came down in the sea about 3 1/2 miles off Southwold, Suffolk. Of the 8 crew and 5 passengers on board there were four survivors. This was the last B17 shot down in the European Theatre of Operations. (From Bill Cook and Ian Hawkins, Framlingham Eighth Air Force Memorial Museum, England).
Source:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=fr
(the above link is no more available on the Net due to teh disparition of compuserve, but is still available via Google)
Another source gives a different number of survivors (2):
This aircraft was assigned to the 388th BG, Knettishall 4/12/1944.
It transferred to the 334th BS 95th BG 5/12/1944. Piloted by L. Sceurman, it went missing on “Operation Chowhound” 7/5/1945. It crashed into the sea with the loss of 11 crew, two survived, returning to duty.
This was the last aircraft of the Eighth Airforce to be lost in World War Two.
Source:
http://www.95thbg-horham.com/page354.html
A picture of the crew is available there http://www.95thbg-horham.com/page175.html.
Several of the men shown died in the crash. The ABMC website lists the following casualties for 334th BS for this day:
BUBOLZ EDWARD H JR SSGT
KELLER JOHN J SSGT
KORBER ROBERT W TSGT
LANKFORD WILLIAM R SSGT
MCPHERSON GANO E JR SSGT
REPISCAK JOSEPH P S