Two P-47 losses in march 1945

[Heuser]

Gentlemen,
is there anything known about the losses of

2/Lt Percy Forman, 324.FG, 315.FS on 11.03.1945

and

1/Lt Bernard W. Wallace, 27.FG, 524.FS on 18.03.1945?

Thanks in advance

Heuser

[cheesey]

Hello Heuser.

2nd Lt. Percy Forman. KIA on 11th March '45 during a dive bombing mission against a railway bridge at Blickweiler, Germany. He crashed into the side of a hill after failing to pull out of a dive. Forman was buried near to the crash site. I don't have details of his aircraft i'm afraid.

1st Lt. Bernard Wallace. KIA on 18th March '45 whilst leading his flight. He was attacking locomotives in a marshalling yard near Homburg, Germany when his aircraft was hit by flak. He was buried at the village cemetary of Bruchhof in a common grave with other allied dead. Again I don't have aircraft details.

Hope this helps.......Steve.

[Heuser]

Hi Steve,
thank you very much for your reply! My sources are limited, but AFAIK there are no MACR regarding both losses...(?)

Best regards

Heuser

[cheesey]

Hello Heuser, glad to help.

The info above came from a number of documents I found on Footnote.com. They include correspondence from the USAAF to the pilots next of kin. However, they are listed under MACRs but do not seem to form part of individual MACRs! So perhaps no reports were issued at the time? I assume that the aircraft involved were P-47s?

If you want copies of the documents and don't have a Footnote account I can forward them to you.

Steve.

[pilot05]

Hello,

you can find some information about this planes here
http://www.flugzeugabstuerze-saarlan...saarpfalz.html

Lt Forman:
The MACR of Forman is 15889, his plane was the 44-33420.
I found a piece of his plane with the insignia P-47D-30-RA, this is the exact plane type. He was shot down by the flako of "Götz von Berlichingen".
You can read this on our website.
Today he is buried at St.Avold, France.

Lt Wallace:
MACR is 15870, the story you can find again at the website.
Serial: O-705646, today he is buried at Fairmount/Illinois - USA.

cheesey- I would be interested in the pages you found, because I have no documents on this planes.
Could you also help me with other MACRS? That would be great!

Best regards
Martin

[cheesey]

No problem Martin.

Could you forward me your e-mail address because the link in your profile isn't working! I'll put everthing together for you over the next few days.

If you need other MACRs or related documents then please let me know.

Nice site by the way, very well put together

Steve.

[Snautzer]

Could this be the wreck of the p47 of 1 of the mentioned pilots?




https://www.ebay.com/itm/726-WWII-Ph...QAAOSwAdFcWPQ-

[RSwank]

Yes, this could be the plane of Lt Wallace. His MACR starts here for those with fold3 access: https://www.fold3.com/image/29426572

But the key page from his MACR is this one:
https://www.fold3.com/image/29426601?terms=bruchhof

In the 2nd photo a sign says the plane was shot down near Bruchhof in Feb (45?). The bottom part of the sign seem to say something like "25? Miles East of ????"

Paraphrasing the key MACR page on fold3 for Wallace, it says that Wallace was killed 18 March 1945. On 15 April a ground search found his plane which had a large "Question Mark" on the vertical stabilizer (as is seen in the first linked photo). Civilians reported that the pilot was buried at Bruchhof, mentioned in the 2nd photo.


Percy Forman's MACR (missing some pages) starts here: https://www.fold3.com/image/29427074