Project Get Out and WALK

BAIL-OUT - BALE-OUT


PLEASE NOTE THIS PAGE IS  ADDED TO ON AN IRREGULAR BASIS

This section of the website is dedicated to those aircrew who did not use ejection seats to egress from their aircraft. They used conventional bail outs using parachute and ripcord. Most were successful, for some the outcome was fatal. The performance dynamics of their aircraft made successful escape without mechanical assistance less certain. Assisted escape systems were needed to give the maximum  chance of survival.

 

MORE PARACHUTE DESCENTS BEING ADDED WEEKLY - AND PHOTOS AS AND WHEN FOUND

1944

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Bail-Outs for
1944

Ejections for 1944

1945 >>>>
Date crew who bailed out position notes status Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial

based

 mission cause crashed
16th January 1944
2nd bale-out
Leutnant Günther Schack 		pilot see also
22nd October 1941.
17th September 1944,
6th October 1944,
12th April 1945		 OK
Luftwaffe		 Bf 109       shot down in combat  
29th March 1944
Oberst Hermann Graf 		pilot   Wounded
Luftwaffe		 Bf 109 G-6
“< +”.		 WkNr. 26 020)      rammed USAAF P-51 Mustang  
22nd April 1944 John A. Neal   Bailed out. Spent the following 5 months with the Resistance Esc
USAAF		         Shot down trying to take out the Marshalling yards, Laon, France. over Laon, France
12th May 1944
Gruppenkommadeur Gunther Rall		 pilot his left
thumb shot was off		 Wounded
Luftwaffe		 Bf 109 G-5
"Schwarz << +",		   WkNr.110 089 Stab II./JG 11 attacked by P-47's from the 56th FG   over Frankfurt / Main
31st May 1944        
US Army Air Corps		 B-24
"Leila Nell"		 135th unit.   bombing the oil fields of Ploesti, Romania shot down Ploesti, Romania
Staff Sergeant Glen A. Ranck nose gunner captured and a POW
released 23rd August 1944		  
23rd/24th June 1944 crew above
RAF		 Lancaster I LM138
GI-N
622 Sqn
Mildenhall		 T/o 23:15h to destroy a flying‑bomb site at l'Hey   4 km S of Bergues near Socx (Nord)
FSgt Wilfred Harold Cooke+ RNZAF pilot   Killed

Sgt Donald Meese		   baled out - initially PoW in Poland - later escaped on transfer to another camp Evd, later PoW
FSgt R J Hansford     Evd
FSgt R J Chapman RAAF     PoW
FO A W Simmond     PoW
Sgt Frederick Oliver+ Air Gnr   Killed
FSgt T Durrant RNZAF     PoW
+buried Socx Churchyard
29th July 1944
Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel Hermann Wischnewski		 pilot Low level, high speed, opening shock of parachute wrenched his arms out of their sockets, injured by heavy landing. Hospitalised - did not return to combat Res
Luftwaffe		 Bf 109 G-6/U2 “Red 2”     Shot down  near Gelbstadt

ref:
12th August 1944 Capt. Richard D. Macon pilot Tuskegee Airman, 16½ missions over Europe Broke neck in jump
POW
US Army Air Corps		 P-51 Mustang Tuskegee
99th Fighter Squadron
332nd Fighter Group		   strafing ground targets -southern France Hit by ground fire southern France
2nd September 1944
Lt(jg) George Herbert  Walker Bush		 pilot Bailed out successfully Res U.S. Navy Grumman TBM Avenger   VT-51
USS San Jacinto		   Hit by anti-aircraft fire while making a bombing run over the Bonin Island of Chichi Jima, 600 miles south of Japan Over sea near Bonin Island of Chichi Jima, rescued by Navy submarine, "USS Finback"
Lt (jg) William White, USNR gunner ?? There have been conflicting reports that one of these two crew bailed-out but the parachute failed and he fell to his death KIA
Radioman Second Class John Delaney, USNR Radioman KIA
17th September 1944
3rd bale-out
Staffelkapitän Günther Schack		 pilot see also
22nd October 1941.
16th January 1944,
6th October 1944,
12th April 1945		 OK
Luftwaffe		 Bf 109   9./JG 51   shot down in combat  
Saturday
30th September 1944
22:50
evening		 Flt. Sgt. George Roan "Jock" Irving pilot did not  bale out KIA
RAF		 Mosquito VI HR201
YP-??
23 Sqn		 strafing rail communications targets at night shot down attacking when they attacked a "flak" train About 1m south of Grassel, Germany

Flt. Sgt. George Cross		 navigator parachuted to safety POW
Photo (from POW ID Card) via Flt Sgt Cross's son, who has given permission to allow it to be shown on this web site and also has produced a web site detailing his father's bale out in 1944 LINK
6th October 1944
4th bale-out
Staffelkapitän Günther Schack		 pilot see also
22nd October 1941.
16th January 1944,
17th September 1944,
12th April 1945		 wounded
Luftwaffe		 Bf 109 G-6 “Yellow 13” WkNr. 165 559 9./JG 51   shot down in combat  
13th October 1944
11:00am		 ????? Pilot   KIA
US Army Air Corps

B-26
Martin

   451 Bomb Sqnd of the 336 Bomb Gp Braintree about 40 miles NE of London   Blown out of aircraft still strapped into seat  
1st. Lt. Berkley E Adams Co-pilot   wounded
8th November 1944

1st bale-out
Oberleutnant Franz Schall		 pilot see also
4th April 1945		 OK
Luftwaffe		 Me 262 A-1a “White 7”. W.Nr. 110 404 2. Staffel
Hesepe		   Intercepted by P-51, piloted by Lt James Kenney of the 357th FG - engines flamed out near Hesepe
16th December 1944
Commander Macpherson Berrien Williams 		pilot Low level, high speed bail-out seriously burned, landed heavily  in enemy territory Res U.S. Navy     USS Yorktown (CV-10), “The Fighting Lady”   Engine fire following hit by AAA during low level attack on hidden Japanese aircraft at Marikina Air Field Hills on the eastern side of the Manila Plain, Philippines
Looked after by local Filipino's - evaded capture - later recovered by US Forces

ref:
24th / 25th December 1944
Oberleutnant Heinz Strüning		   baled out but struck the tail unit and fell to his death

see also Ejections 6th September 1943

 KIA
Luftwaffe		   Bf 110 G-4 (W.Nr. 740 162) “G9+CT”     shot down by a RAF intruder  
?????      
Date crew who bailed out position notes status Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial

based

 mission cause crashed
Date crew who bailed out position notes status Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial

based

 mission cause crashed