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American J R Paget usaaf 8th air force flack helmet pierced Berlin raid March 1944

Shot down by flak and crashed at Lautenbach on 7/20/44 in B-17 ' The Liberty Run ' # 42-102509, Prisoner of War (POW). 20-07-1944 Thursday
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Boeing B-17G-50-BO 42-102509 The Liberty Run.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Dow Fd 6/4/44; Assigned 401BS 91BG [LL-A] Bassingbourn 22/4/44; Missing in Action Leipzig 20/7/44 with Art Hultin, Co-pilot: Capt Bill Martin, Navigator: Bob Hart, Bombardier: Maurice Bonomo, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Woodrow Roberts, Radio Operator: Homer Dumont, Ball turret gunner: Bob Meyers, obs-Capt Art Koscinsli, Waist gunner: Frank Franklin, Tail gunner: John Paget (10 Prisoner of War); flak set ship ablaze, crashed Laudenbach, S of Aschaffenberg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7274. THE LIBERTY RUN.





This is the last crew of the Liberty Run. In the front row center (light overalls and cap) is my father, Robert Meyers, ball turret gunner. To the left of him is Homer Dumont, radio operator. Please let me know if any one can identify the others. Several were captured and taken to Stalag Luft IV near Stargard. All survived and returned to the United States.

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German Erich Steigleder 13-07-1941 Sunday Langenau near Breslau



 
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German + 08-08-1943 Sunday

Do 217 K-1 (W.Nr. 4530) of II./KG 2 flown by Feldewebel Detleff Krüger (F), Gefreiter Heinrich Salecker (B), Unteroffizier Fritz Bellmann (Bf) and Unteroffizier Max Speck (Bs), all killed, crashed at Soesterberg airfield, 90%
Bs Uffz. Max Speck killed on return flight from attack on Hull while aircraft crashed on landing approach for Soesterberg 14-7-1943. Do217K-1 U5+FM 4/KG2 4350. Also killed Ff Fw Detlev Kruger, B Gef Heinrich Salecker, Bf Uffz. Fritz Bellmann.
See Ulk Balkes KG2 history and Luft Qm's returns.
There is another Sterbebild of Max Speck with photo without hat and captioned ''an meinen lieben Mann und guten Vater'' which I believe translates as my dear husband and a good father.



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German Hauptmann Müncheberg mit Jagdgewehr



 
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German Josef Schwargler + 16-08-1940 Friday 4./KG

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4./KG77 Junkers Ju88A-1, W. Nr. 4105. Crashed in the Starnberger See 200 m north-west of Gut Hübschenried, near Niederau, during routine domestic flight, cause unknown. FF Fw Josef Schwärzler, BO Fw Sebastian Stangl, and BS Uffz Heinz Reiser all missing.
 
American Lt. Jack Terzian 353rd F.G. 351st F.S with Republic P-47D-2-RA Thunderbolt 42-22469 YJ-Z Marty (356th FG, 360th FS, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-8 flown by Uffz Gartz of JG2/2 at Langgons, NE of Butzbach, W of Wetzler, Germany Sep 9, 1944. MACR 8656. Pilot killed.

Lt. Jack Terzian became Prisoner of War (POW) crashed at Letterhouten on 22 May 44 in P-47 42-25730 Evaded capture through the Belgium Underground until 12 July 1944 when he was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned in St. Gilles prison in Brussels. . He escaped when the train carrying them out of the city derailed on 12 Sept 44 Evaded (EVD)

Republic P-47D-22-RE 42-25730 (353rd FG, 351st FS, 8th AF) hit by 20-mm AAA on outskirts of Liege, Belgium but flew until prop came off and engine quit and crash landed 10 mi NE of Brussels near Burst, Belgium May 22, 1944. MACR 5101.





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American "Dottie Anne B-24J-95-CO Liberator 42-100376 38th Bomb Squadron, 30th Bomb Group, 7th Air Force Lost on the September 3,1944 mission to Iwo Jima. 10 rescued, 1 KIA MACR 8522
2nd Lt. Frederick C. Dodd - pilot
2nd Lt. Howard G. Miller - copilot
2nd Lt. Iver R. Swenson - navigator
2nd Lt. Richard E. McBride - bombardier
2nd Lt. Benjamin R. Cook,Jr. - observer
T/Sgt. Richard L. Williams - engineer/top turret gunner (KIA)
T/Sgt. Julio Depuma - radio operator
S/Sgt. Donald E. Hunnicutt - gunner
S/Sgt. William L. Kopp - gunner
S/Sgt. John J. Mullen - gunner
S/Sgt. John W. Kinnaman - gunner
The aircraft was lost due to the No. 1 engine failing, causing excessive fuel usesage. The entire crew bailed out safely but T/Sgt. Williams had trouble with his life-jacket and his chute dragged him down before the other crew members could reach him.





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