ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50521
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Date: | Sunday 7 May 1944 |
Time: | 13:12 LT |
Type: | Boeing B-17G-30-DL Fortress |
Owner/operator: | 379th BGp /525th BSqn USAAF |
Registration: | 42-38161 |
MSN: | 8847 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Nijelamer, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Kimbolton/AAF Sta.117, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Due to engine trouble, the pilot had to make an emergency-landing. In flight, the propellor of engine #4 had come off and hit engine #3. Five crew members were taken prisoner of war; four evaded capture by hiding in Friesland until the liberation in April 1945.
'Sarah Jane', carrying call sign FR-O, was on an operation to industrial complexes at Berlin.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3651&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/7084 http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/49 Google Maps
JF Baugher
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
03-Sep-2011 04:06 |
uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
03-May-2019 19:27 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
04-May-2019 10:05 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
04-Apr-2020 20:50 |
Reno Raines |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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