Chuck Bondy
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- Oct 7, 2019
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I wish I could find Schwarmerheide on a map, so I could figure out which of the 5 Holtorf's on Via Michelin that it crashed nearTSgt Edward Joseph Bondy (1923-1944) - Find A...
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Delivered Cheyenne 11/3/44; Gr Island 21/3/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 427BS/303BG Molesworth 9/4/44; transferred 338BS/96BG [BX-R] Snetterton 10/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 8/5/44 with Chas Birdsey, Co-pilot: Bill Hayes, Navigator: Alf Hauser, Bombardier: John Bailey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Bondy, Radio Operator: Bill Baumann, Ball turret gunner: Jim Ball, Waist gunner: John Burke, Waist gunner: Dick Kennedy,Tail gunner: Jack Roseborough (10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Holtorf, near Schwarmerheide, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4576. Crashed on 8 May 44 at 1130 hours
For that to be precise you need the mission map with the route for in this case Target Berlin. I think Schwarmerheide is a typo. I searched the other mentioned places for historical websites but no luck yet. Now i will try to find a local historical society that has ww2 in their intrest.I wish I could find Schwarmerheide on a map, so I could figure out which of the 5 Holtorf's on Via Michelin that it crashed near
Hi, thanks for looking at this. I appreciate your helpFor that to be precise you need the mission map with the route for in this case Target Berlin. I think Schwarmerheide is a typo. I searched the other mentioned places for historical websites but no luck yet. Now i will try to find a local historical society that has ww2 in their intrest.
Hi and thanks.Yes, but an American aviator will not have known. He would have looked on his chart. So how did he come up with Schwarmerheide. Being shot at will not have benefited his map reading of course. In the MARC might have been a map pointing out the crash place.
Hi, I think 10 B-17's on that mission went down in that area on that day (May 8, 1945). so confusion may have added to it. I will surely start my search just south of Bremen at Holtorf and drive ESE from there and knock on a few doors and stop in a few shops"Schwarmerheide" is a conglomerate of two words "Schwarmer" and "heide" what is quite typical for the German language. The first one is a town in Lower Saxony , around 30 km south of Bremen. The second one means a meadow or moorland. So we can assume, the bomber could crash near the town somewhere on surrounding meadows.
Hi, thanks for that. I have a copy. Outside of the possibility of a mismarked grave, the MACR and another German document show 2 crash areas. One south of Bremen, west of Verden near a city called Holtorf, and another east of Verden in a city named Holtorf.. I looked up driving directions on Via Michelin and I see the locations of both Holtorfs (incidentally there are 5 Holtorfs in that area).
Hi, thanks for that. I have a copy. Outside of the possibility of a mismarked grave, the MACR and another German document show 2 crash areas. One south of Bremen, west of Verden near a city called Holtorf, and another east of Verden in a city named Holtorf.. I looked up driving directions on Via Michelin and I see the locations of both Holtorfs (incidentally there are 5 Holtorfs in that area).