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Date: | Monday 25 December 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Republic P-47D-28-RA Thunderbolt |
Owner/operator: | 391th FSqn USAAF |
Registration: | 42-29324 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Wallerode-Setz, Liège -
Belgium
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crashed after being struck by German anti-aircraft fire.
Pilot: 2d Lt Hilding R Jr Johnson
Was MiA until August 2006, a group of German citizens located the crash site on the edge of a forest
near Setz, Belgium. The group notified Johnson’s niece, and together they excavated the site and
recovered human remains in 2008. The remains were turned over to the Joint Personnel
Accounting Command (JPAC) for further analysis and DNA testing. In 2011, a JPAC team
completed the excavation of the crash site and recovered additional human remains, aircraft
wreckage, and military equipment.
Sources:
http://www.armyairforces.com/Lt-Hilding-JohnsonKIA-1944-and-ID-2012-m213738.aspx_ http://www.adoptiegraven-database.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3264:johson-hilding-r-jr&catid=80:american-war-cemetery-ardennes-j&Itemid=112
http://www.sudinfo.be/gps?path=regions/verviers/2012-01-23/933561.shtml
http://www.belgianaviationnews.be/2012/01/pilot-of-p-47-back-to-usa-67-years.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Belgianaviationnews+%28BelgianAviationNews%29
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Jan-2012 10:47 |
ThW |
Added |
15-Aug-2012 07:11 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
07-Oct-2012 11:30 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
19-Jun-2013 14:43 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
29-Mar-2020 10:38 |
Reno Raines |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
14-Nov-2022 07:38 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |