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Crew listed is NOT that of B-17 42-107070
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S/Sgt Thomas H. Cleary was an Air Gunner onboard B-24 bomber 42-95247 "Dixie Flyer". The aircraft belonged to 445BG/702BS, came from Tibenham airbase, Norfolk, UK, and was on a…
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Aircraft was shot down on 29th November 1943 aT 15.20 by Hauptmann Günther Specht (II./JG 11), flying a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter. It crashed in Overijssel province,…
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Aircraft is a Lancaster B II, coded DS842/JI-F of No 514 Sqn based at Waterbeach.
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Filze-Rijen is actually Gilze-Rijen.
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Aircraft belonged to 366BS/305BG and was nicknamed "Polly Ann".
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His year of birth is probably not correct as he enlisted the Army in 1943... If he was born in 1872, this would mean that he was 71 at that time!
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He was killed on Tuesday, 3rd April 1945 when the B-17 #43-38992 he flew in as a Tail Gunner, crashed on Texel (West Frisian Islands) - The Netherlands.
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Location of last whereabouts of the missing aircraft is listed as "Lee Warden", Holland, though this should be "Leeuwarden", Holland.
Aircraft crashed in the Wadden Sea, between…
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