Date: 1944 Jan 30/30			A/C Type: B-17G   Fortress		SN: 42-31643		Code: FO-X		A/C Nickname:
File: 433		Airforce: USAAF		Sqn/Unit: 379 BG - 527 BS			Mission/Raid: Brunswick  (Braunschweig)
1	Pilot	1Lt. Donald E. Winter          all crew KIA					9	RWG	Sgt. Alfred R. Falls
2	Co-pilot	2Lt. Joseph W. Wiley					10	TG	Sgt. Floyd E. Hart
3	Nav.	2Lt. George H. Anderson					11
4	B	2Lt. Edmund J. Torpey					12
5	E	S/Sgt John R. Fitzgerald					13
6	RO	S/Sgt. Richard C. Kausch					14
7	BTG	S/Sgt. George A. Gardner					15
8	LWG	S/Sgt. James C. Underwood					16
On route back to England, a Flak shell hit this aircraft while flying over the Dutch coast, south of Den Helder. Crashed in the dunes (Pirola Vlakte) at Schoorl. Crew buried in Bergen aan Zee, graves 240 to 248, row 9.

In Bergen aan Zee they were buried next to each other on the row towards the (later) Cross of Sacrifice.
After the exhumation of the Americans in 1946, their graves were (much later) re-used (graves P).

Bergen aan Zee Cemetery: http://www.zzairwar.nl/dossiers/911.html

All were reburied post war in American War Cemetery Netherlands in Margraten.
In the 1949 Repatriation Program, five men were reburied in the US.
Lt. Wiley, Anderson, Sgt. Fitzgerald, Kausch and Gardner are still buried in Margraten.

Photo of Germans soldiers on tail section: http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl/detail.jsp?action=detail&recordidx=1


In 1980, the ID-Tag of plot Lt. Donald E. Winter was found in the sand at the crash location:

http://www.beeldbankbergen.nl/cgi-bin/beeldbank.pl?ident=55881&search=VELD%20fromtype%20Schoorl&inword=2&display=gallery&istart=1






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