Robert Reynolds, 354th FG, MACR 9178

[hanshauprich]

Hello Frank,
as my knowlege the plane crashed near Neuerburg/Eifel. This ist more than 50km NW from my hometown Trier. (Horst Weber have more infos!!) Bech is an smal german village same 40 km south of Trier, at the river Moselle, near the German-Luxembourg Border. Also not far away from France. From Bech to Neuerburg it is nearly an perfect strait linie!!!!
Bests,

hans

[Horst Weber]

Originally Posted by hanshauprich

Hello Frank,
as my knowlege the plane crashed near Neuerburg/Eifel. This ist more than 50km NW from my hometown Trier. (Horst Weber have more infos!!) Bech is an smal german village same 40 km south of Trier, at the river Moselle, near the German-Luxembourg Border. Also not far away from France. From Bech to Neuerburg it is nearly an perfect strait linie!!!!
Bests,

hans

Guten Abend Hans,
good evening Frank !

Robert Reynolds P-51 came down on that day at about 12:45 hrs near the village of Neuerburg, Kreis Wittlich, Germany. Neuerburg is today a suburb of Wittlich-town and is located at the East of the town.

There was always some confusion about the general crash-location since there are two towns named Neuerburg in the general area. In this case it was possible, to locate the incident to the Wittlich Neuerburg.

For more inf, please contact me by PM.

Best wishes

Horst Weber

[aaatripp]

For Frank Olynyk,

Thanks so much for your detailed explanation of the notations, including specific info about Bud Emmer (Capt. Wallace N. Emmer, USAAF 353FS).
I do hope to visit NARA II some day in Maryland and will use this info.

Best wishes,
Tripp

P.S. Apologies for my late response as I have just now viewed your answer for the first time.