1st Lt Fenstermacher 404FG-506FS

[Alain57]

26/12/1944
P-47D-27-RA - 42-28933 - 404FG/506FS
St-Trond A-92
1st Lt Fenstermacher Robert ( KIA ) 0-818531 Pensylvania – Margraten
MACR 11992
Is this information correct or was 1st Lt Fenstermacher flying 42-26465 ?

[Leendert]

Alain,

The online 404th FG history has these details about operations on 26 December 1944: "Captain Ollie O. Simpson's 15-plane 506th formation knocked out a gun position and six trucks and damaged an armored vehicle in the Dreiborn area east of Monschau, and Captain Ray's 507th squadron of 16 worked with the 78th Infantry Division west of Schmidt, dumping their bombs on a reported concentration of enemy tanks which were marked by 78th guns with red smoke shells.
The 506th lost First Lieutenant Robert G. Fenstermacher and First Lieutenant Clinton Winters when their planes were hit by flak."

No info is given which P-47s were involved.

Regards,

Leendert

[Alain57]

Thanks Leendert

Alain

[Luc Vervoort]

Hi Alain and Leendert,

Found as information :
42-28933 crashed in the Netherlands, at Mechelen-Bissen (pilot Winters)
and
42-26465 crashed in Belgium,at Petersgensfeld (Raeren,postalcode 4730) (pilot Fenstermacher).

Best regards from another side of Belgium.

Luc

[Alain57]

Thanks Luc.

Alain

[ssg keay]

Incorrect, Fenstermacher was flying 42-28933 and Winters was in 42-26465, with nose art "Rae".
Danny

[Alain57]

Hello ,

Thanks for the remark.

Regards

Alain57

[tjms50]

According to the mission report for the 404th that day, Fenstermacher was indeed flying 42-28933,"4K-Z".