P-47 crash-landing 03-16-45 in Remagen-bridgehead

[TCO]

Hello Heuser,

Thx for your reply!

I can say by now:
2nd Ltd Jack Rives (Dog-Tag: O-832696):
Belly-landed his P-47-D-22-RE (serial 42-26285) / 507th FS/404th FG on
03/20/1945 between the villages OETZINGEN and HELFERSKIRCHEN (appr. 5 miles north to the town of Montabaur); MACR 13620 says due to FLAK. He managed to get off the plane, however he was captured in the vincinity of Quirnbach and shot- see link: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/dachautrial/fs37.pdf


Major Thomas H. Beeson (Dog-Tag: 025510):
He was shot down by FLAK on 03/16/1945, bailed out injured of his burning P-47-D-27-RE (serial: 42-27335) "Cherokee Maid" / 377th FS/362nd FG . His abondened burning plane crashed into a house at NIEDERELBERT (close to Montabaur), killing 4 people.


Best Regards,
TCO