Crash B26 on 11.April 1945 near Cologne

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Continuing on information in the G-2 report. This is from pdf page 504.

On April 12 at 18:20 the town of Lulsdorf surrenders. A Lt Jacques J Saunder crosses the river and talks to the town mayor. He learns that 40 Germans pulled out of the town at noon that day, taking the one airman from the B-26 with them as a PW. (There were still a few soldiers hiding in the town and Saunder and the Mayor convinced them to surrender.) The civilians in Lulsdorf had buried the 6th man in the plane who died in the crash. The 40 German soldiers who pulled out made it to Porz, where they were all captured. The airman was still with them.


I have not seen any references so far to the names of any of the airmen in the G-2 report.

I did a quick scan to the end of the file but did not see anything else on the B-26 story.

(There are some other interesting incidents and interrogation reports included toward the end of the file.)