Downed B-24, 10/1/43

[Tyler Bridges]

Hi Peter:

Thank you again for helping me out. So the KU files might provide the German account of the shootdown that day, right? I will look for that when I get to NARA next month.

You listed a bunch of pilots claiming shoot downs on October 1, 1943 near Wiener Neustadt. How do I determine which ones might have shot down my father's plane?

From the American side, I can look for a number of reports: the mission summary, the bombing summary and the MACR, right?. I will also request my father's personnel file, but I've read that that might be in St. Louis (or it may have perished in the fire there).

I have already gotten my father's E&E report. I was asking whether there are reports for the six men who bailed out of my father's plane and spent the rest of the war in German POW camps. Would they have given some sort of narrative of the shootdown, their capture and their time as POWs upon their release? If so, I would like to get those reports for them.

Where can I find an Austrian researcher who would help me? My father's plane went down somewhere south of Wiener Neustadt. How do I find out where the plane went down?

Another question: Where can I go to get the Individual Deceased Personnel Files for the three crewmembers who died?

What can I get at Maxwell AFB that I can't get at NARA?

I welcome more comments from you, or from anyone else who wants to jump in.

Best,

Tyler Bridges