Date: 1944 May 19/19			A/C Type: B-24 J  Liberator		SN: 44-40152		Code:		A/C Nickname:
File: 254		Airforce: USAAF		Sqn/Unit: 492 BG - 858 BS			Mission/Raid: Brunswick (Braunschweig)
1	Pilot	2Lt. Robert D. Fischer *					9	RWG	S/Sgt. Wilfred E. Teal *
2	Co-pilot	2Lt. Walter W. Mallard *					10	TG	Sgt. John H. Fain
3	Nav.	2Lt. Robert H. Johnson					11
4	B	2Lt. Angelo Bagnasco					12
5	E	S/Sgt. Charles L. Herman					13
6	RO	S/Sgt. Joseph M. Debowski    KIA					14
7	BTG	Sgt. Clarence A. Corbin					15
8	LWG	Sgt. Edward J. Curtin					16
On return from target near Hannover attacked by fighters, dropped out of formation under the undercast under control. Crew jumped southeast of Harderwijk. Aircraft smashed on the road Garderen - Uddel. Eventually all POW, one KIA buried Harderwijk.

Six were captured on the Elspeeter Heath same day by German soldiers of the 2nd. Regiment Panzergrenadiers of the Hermann Göring Division. Three men * (Fischer, Mallard and Teal) were recorded by the Germans as 'escaping'. 



 





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