Date: 1944 May21/21			A/C Type: P-38 J Lightning		SN: 42-104250		Code:		A/C Nickname:
File: 387		Airforce: USAAF		Sqn/Unit: 55 FG -343 FS			Mission/Raid: Bomber escort
1	Pilot	1Lt. Henry K. Warwick        KIA, buried in Doornspijk					9
2							10
3							11
4							12
5							13
6							14
7							15
8							16
Passed a German Tank company in training, flying low. Shot down by 20mm Flak. Hard belly landing, KIA.

On 21 May 1944, this P-38 passed flying low a German tank company on a training exercise. They shot him down with 20mm Flak and the aircraft made a rough belly landing on the Doornspijkse Heath. This is the south section of the Oldebroeker Heath, south of army barracks 't Harde. On impact, Lt. Warwick was thrown out of the cockpit and was killed. The Germans took some pictures of him laying next to the burning aircraft. He was buried on the closest-by cemetery, which was Doornspijk General Cemetery, in the 'pilot-row', grave 7, next to RAF Sgt. D'Arcy Gould. Post war Lt. Warwick was exhumed and reburied in US centralization War Cemetery "Ardennes", Belgium.












































Sources:

- MACR
- our research on the Doornspijk war graves
- http://www.station131.co.uk/55th/Pilots/343rd%20Pilots/Warwick%20Henry%20K%20Lt.htm 

- File on cemetery Doornspijk:  http://www.zzairwar.nl/dossiers/929.html





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