Date: 1944 Apr 29/29			A/C Type: B-17G  Fortress		SN: 42-102520		Code: XM-		A/C Nickname:
File: 705		Airforce: USAAF		Sqn/Unit: 94 BG - 332 BS			Mission/Raid: Berlin
1	Pilot	2Lt. Joseph K. McClurkin          MIA					9	RWG	Sgt. Dominic G. Leogrande       MIA
2	Co-pilot	F/O Edward I. Knowlden    rescued, POW					10	TG	Sgt. Anthony C. Gambardella, buried Den Helder
3	Nav.	2Lt. Charles L. Dulin                 MIA					11
4	B	2Lt. Clarence E. Meekin          MIA					12
5	E	S/Sgt. Lawrence J. Rock          MIA					13
6	RO	S/Sgt. Joseph P. McCabe   buried Texel					14
7	BTG	Sgt. Robert L. Johnson            MIA					15
8	LWG	Sgt. Joseph G. Fanning           MIA					16
Berlin Flak hit this aircraft. RWG Sgt. Leogrande lost his life, died in the waist. Aircraft became a straggler on route back to England. On the Dutch coast at Texel Island, Flak hit them again. Eight men bailed out. Pilot and the body of Sgt. Leogrande went down with the aircraft in the North Sea, 5 km west of Texel Island. One men resucued from sea, two bodies recovered, 7 MIA.

 

























































Below image; the war graves plot in Ben Burg, Texel Island. Visible (red arrow) is the initial, now empty grave of S/Sgt. Joseph P. McCabe. He was exhumed in 1945 and rests now in US War Cemetery 'Netherlands' in Margraten. The missing crewmembers can be washed ashore and buried in this and northeast of this area, but remained unidentified.















































































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