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Waldemar Wuebke story-March 1943
Found this while trawling the Web. I believe it's from the Australian newspaper files site, don't have the link. Maybe someone can identify the B-17 crew. Waldemar Wuebke was killed while flying a Colombian airliner.
FORMER GERMAN PILOT PAYS NINE-YEAR-OLD BET Santa Ana, Calif.--LTV--Early in July [1943] a German Luftwaffe captain boasted the Nazis would sweep their foes out of the skies. A captured American bomber pilot wagered the best bottle of brandy available after the war that the German was wrong. , Early this month David Farrell, of Santa Ana, the wartime pilot, collected. The loser, Captain Waldemar Wuebke, now living in Bogota, Colombia, remembered the bet when he met a New York woman in South America. He sent $10 back with her. She sent it to a sister in Compton, Calif., who gave it to Farrell's father in Long Beach. Since the former captain doesn't drink, he turned the winnings over to the Boys' fund of the Santa Ana Optimist Club |
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Re: Waldemar Wuebke story-March 1943
Here's some information on David Farrell. He was shot down on April 17,1943 flying 42-5394 of the 367th BS, 306 BG
From American Air Museum http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/8140 Delivered Tulsa 29/11/42; Morrison 12/2/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-O] Thurleigh 2/3/43; Missing in Action Bremen 17/4/43 with Ray Fortin, Co-pilot: Dave Farrell, Bombardier: Mo Pickett, Navigator: Tom Walden, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Pederson,Tail gunner: Fred Newcomb (6 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: John Quinn, Ball turret gunner: Don Dorion, Waist gunner: John Barnes, Waist gunner: Harry Pease (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #2 & #4, crashed Benthullen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 15516. |
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