U.S. POW- Assistance to locate a building in West Germany.

[Col Bruggy]

Hello,

Possibly 17032540 S/Sgt Glenn A BLAKEMORE - (Radio Operator)

https://www.conscript-heroes.com/esc...Briez-Izel.htm

Do a Control + F search on Blakemore.

Col.

[Alex Smart]

Thanks Col,
Eventually found it, do not have "control +F" on my tablet .

Ardell Bollinger (#335) says that the organisation head (Yves Le Guillou) and Klacken (Pierre Claquin of 12 rue Saint Jean, Treboul) a short, heavy man who worked on the railways at Douarnenez, took seven (sic) of them - Bollinger, Kelly and Kalas plus S/Sgt Glenn Blakemore (from B-17 42-5130 Sweet Pea) and three (query) others - to a house in Treboul (at 38 rue Professeur Curie) where they stayed with Gabriel Cloarec. They report Blakemore leaving with a Frenchman and heard later that he had been captured, along with the family that helped him.

Blakemore is listed as the Radio Operator.
Alex

[Henofred]

Hello/Bonjour Alex,

Sorry for my delay to anwer the posts.

It was S/Sgt. Blakemore.

He was sent from Quimper to Treboul/Douarnenez to join a party of men (amongst them, Bollinger, Kelly and Kalas), planned to board the fishing boat "Jeanne" whose departure had to be during the night of December 24-25, 1943. For various reasons, the departure was postponed and Blackmore came back to Quimper with its guide, once again housed by the Le Guellec family. The rest of the airmen, about twelve - including five airmen who had been not able to board the "Suzanne-Renée" on October 23, 1943 - were spread out in various safe houses. Bollinger, Kelly and Kalas were lucky to board later for England, Blackmore not, as he was arrested on January 20, 1944 by the Gestapo at Quimper, along with all the members of the Le Guellec family.

Blackmore was Top Turret Gunner/Flight Engineer.

Best regards,
Frederic