Staff Sergeant Stanley A Shepherd

[ghostwriter]

hello keith,

you know this:

Flown by Staff Sergeant Stanley A. Shepherd, 56th Squadron, B.80 Volkel/Netherlands, March 28, 1945.
This day Oberleutnant Dortenmann took of with a dozen Doras from IV/JG 26 and later bounced Tempests from the RAF No.56 Squadron. Two Tempest was claimed, one by Dortenmann and the another one by Uffz. Hein. In fact one Tempest was shot down, the victim was Staff Sergeant Stanley A Shepherd who crashed his machine near Schoonrewoerd in the Netherlands. Two locals approached the British pilot in order to hide him but the pilot refused as he wanted to return to the plane to get his gun. When he made his way back a group of German soldiers who were stationed at the nearby radar station arrived and Shepherd was arrested and later shot.

source: https://luftwaffeinprofile.se/Fw%201...20Tempest.html

add-on: https://www.backtonormandy.org/compo...4-4157163.html

and do you know the reason why he was murdered?


regards
ghost