P-38 crash Devon UK 26 jan 1943

[RSwank]

Jerome L Foreman's 106 page IDPF file can be downloaded from here:

https://www.americanairmuseum.com/ar...media-22344pdf

The file was donated to the museum by Bill Beigel. I am not sure the file is complete as it does not contain the usual pages used to identify the body. The cover page says there should be 114 pages.

A link mentioning Beigel's donation (search for Foreman):

https://www.ww2research.com/news/ame...iles-donation/

Page 2 and page 105 do give the serial number of the plane as 42-2886, so the error was in the original file.



The crash site description in the IDPF file seems to refer to this location:

https://www.torsofdartmoor.co.uk/tor...tor=broad-rock

Nuns Cross Farm is just off the map to the north (drag the map down a little).

Orange mark on Google Maps is the location of Broad Rock. Crash site is 600 yards to the east.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/50...!1e3?entry=ttu


Note there is also a thread discussing this event here:

http://www.warbirdinformationexchang...3461&mobile=on

Note that there is mention that 42-12886 was condemned in 1944.

http://raf-112-squadron.org/82ndfghonor_roll.html