Capt Orsinger Keith A 366 FG

[Moonraker]

On February 22 1944 a P-47 from 366 FG was shot down near Lommel Belgium . The pilt was Capt Keith A Orsinger 0-426419. According to my info his aircraft was 42-75140. Can someone check out once if this is right ?

[Horst Weber]

Originally Posted by Moonraker

On February 22 1944 a P-47 from 366 FG was shot down near Lommel Belgium . The pilt was Capt Keith A Orsinger 0-426419. According to my info his aircraft was 42-75140. Can someone check out once if this is right ?

Good evening moonraker !

Neither the a/c's s/n nor the unit match up with this date according to the available literature and files.

Do you have deeper infos ?.

Horst Weber

[Moonraker]

Hello Horst ,

Sorry it seems that he flew with 353FG-352 FS

Greets

Moonraker

[Leendert]

Alain, Horst,

P-47 42-75140 is on the USAAF loss list with date 22 Feb 1944 flying with 353rd FG.
Capt Orsinger officially was with 366th FG. Perhaps both FGs thought the other FG would file a MACR, and as a rseult none was made at all at that time?

P-47 42-75140 is indeed often represented as with 56th FG, but probably a mix-up here with 42-75410 (HV-M). Opinions welcome.

Further losses of 353rd FG that day were 42-75065 (Edison, KIA, crashed at Ekeren, Belgium), 75226 (Beckham, POW, Berg-Neukirchen, Germany), 75647 (Wood, KIA, North Sea) and 75653 (Hurlburt, KIA, North Sea).

Footnote.com has no match with Keith A. Orsinger either.

Regards,

Leendert

[Moonraker]

Hello Leendert , Horst ,

Capt Orsinger was buried here at the airfield off St-Trond Belgium ( St-Truiden in flemish ) in grave nr 375 on februray 22 1944.

Greets

[BigWeeker]

I put some postings about Orsinger on this Board last year.........

BW

[ron_Ra]

according losses of the 8th and 9th airforce
capt orsinger was last seen spinning down
after the war 8 bodies were recovered from the military cemetery of st trond
7 bodies were from the b-17 42-31500 witch crashed the same day
3 body's of this b-17 could be indentify
the other 8 received an groep burial in rock island national cemetery illinois

chrashlocation of cap orsinger is unknow
there is an other p-47 that crashed at the same time south of eindhoven
so it could be that the p-47 41-6335 of lt johnson of cap orsinger crashed at lommel

[ZBUTRTECHT]

Doesburg
Hallo

Can sombody give me some details about the crash ,the P-47D 42-7975 on 7-11-1943 in
Doesburg Holland Pilot Robert Emmet Sheehan ,Evadad ,I seaching the dammage,Salvagingunit and the last used Code I now that the are two Codes UN-C ,UN-I butt what
is the last one.What happend with Sheehan after the crash.
Im have the Macr nr.1166 and the data from Little
Freinds and the Dutch Airwair groups T.3071 used.
Thanks

Ad Huiding

[ZBUTRTECHT]

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