Mystery Liberator crash

[Alex Smart]

Hello Col,

Thank you for confirming the details of the loss of Walter Buell Plate.

Wilmer A. Plate.
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry...t=32&tcount=60

and this -
Ford B-24H-20-FO Liberator42-94839Plate's Date489BG 847BS94839 (489th BG, 847th BS, *Plate's Date*) crash-landed with battle damage Jun 2, 1944 and salvaged.
Source: Joe Baugher US Aircraft Serial Numbers - http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/usafserials.html

What if anything have you found on Wilmer A. Plate other than what has been said already ( 489th BG, 847th BS - survived WW2 - retired - died 2008 [?] ) please ?

Alex

[Leendert]

Alex,

Scroll down to pages 4 + 5 on this link for a more personal insight in Wilmer Plate in later life: http://lmbc.org/~lewismem/cms-assets...nnect-1207.pdf

Take care, document is 16 MB.

Regards,

Leendert

[BC]

Will Plate is indeed still alive and was the original source of the inquiry about the crash in Kent in the ATC aircraft. He revised the details he initially passed to a member of the Holton Airfield Memorial Museum who asked me if I could help. I don't usually stray outside East Anglia with my researches, but said I'd do what I could, and you good gentlemen have helped a lot. Will is obviously quite elderly, but if you have any specific questions you'd like to put to him, I'll gladly pass them on via the HAMM.

BC