ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 229908
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| Date: | Saturday 28 October 1944 |
| Time: | 09:30 LT |
| Type: |  Republic P-47D Thunderbolt |
| Owner/operator: | 48th FGp /493th FSqn USAAF |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Luikerheiderstraat street, Kerkrade, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | A.92 (St Trond) Sint-Truiden (B) |
While engaged in a 'dive bombing and strafing mission' to Germany, the aircraft was hit by Flak and crashed. The Thunderbolt had taken off with 1/Lt. H. L. Young at the controls.
Between Geilenkirchen and Immendorf (Geilenkirchen) in Nordrhein-Westfalen, the pilot flies to a crossroads to bomb it, but things go wrong there. He gets a broadside from a German Flak unit on the ground and then tries to fly his crippled P-47 back west to liberated territory. He barely succeeds, because his plane eventually crashes around 9.30 am into the middle of Chèvremont village (modern Kerkrade); fortunately without any casualties.
The American MP’s helped to get the injured Young to a lazaret and later that the burned-out wreck is cleared away.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4588B&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
https://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/245025
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 12-Oct-2019 10:12 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 29-Mar-2020 10:28 | Reno Raines | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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