ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 155274
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| Date: | Saturday 1 April 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated B-24J Liberator |
| Owner/operator: | 703rd BSqn / 445th BGp USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-110029 |
| MSN: | 3825 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Damaged over Germany but reported to have been shot down off English -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Of the crew 5 evaded 3 POW 2 MIA. [8 parachutes were seen by another Liberator to fall from this plane]. The abonded plane itself did not crash but flew for 150 miles until the crew of Liberator BoysHowdy were obliged to being the wreck down in English channel just off UK coast. The newspaper claimed the derelict was only about 10 miles from its home base.
This wreck may have been the unknown B-24 found off Wessex coast
Note if this wreck was 42-110029 the account that it was only 10 miles from its base is incorrect..the 703rd Bomb Sq was based at Tibenham, England Norfolk; it is also been suggested that the wreck is B-24 42-100356 lost 1 April 1944 crashed English Channel [Near Folkstone Kent(?)
Sources:
- JF Baugher
Pittsburgh Post Gazette April 6, 1944 p.2 at https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=gL9scSG3K_gC&dat=19440406&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/2711
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/uor-work/alsf-wrecks-seabed
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=55088
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Apr-2013 15:48 | Uli Elch | Added |
| 18-Apr-2013 15:58 | Uli Elch | Updated [Date, Registration, Cn] |
| 27-Sep-2019 17:44 | Nomann | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Sep-2019 19:47 | noman | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Sep-2019 06:59 | Nomann | Updated [Location] |
| 28-Sep-2019 17:11 | nIEMANN | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Dec-2019 08:54 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 26-Mar-2024 06:29 | Serenity449 | Updated [[Operator, Operator]] |
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