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Date |
crew who bailed out |
position |
notes |
status |
Air Force |
A'cft |
Unit / Serial |
based |
mission |
cause |
crashed |
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13th January 1945 |
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13th January 1945 |
2Lt. Jack
E. Stocks |
Pilot |
Crash landed aircraft |
OK |
USAAF |
B-17G Flying Fortress |
43-38642 |
359TH Bomber Squadron,
303rd Bomb Group, RAF Molesworth |
to Mannheim |
Hit by flak over target
2Lt. Jack
E. Stocks ordered four of the crew to bail out then crash landed aircraft at
Tantonville landing strip
LINK |
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Cpl.
Roger K. Bates |
Aerial Gunner |
bailed out |
OK |
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Sgt. John Fiore |
Radio |
bailed out |
OK |
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Sgt.
John W. Hamilton |
Armorer Gunner |
bailed out |
OK |
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Cpl. Nauphlet
F Daniel |
Aerial Gunner |
bailed out |
injured |
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T/Sgt Edmund P. Copp |
Engineer |
did not bail-out |
OK |
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2lt James T. Steineman |
Bombardier / Navigator |
did not bail-out |
OK |
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2Lt Ronald A. Anstrom |
Navigator |
injured in legs by flak decided not to bail out |
injured |
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2Lt John F. Marsh |
Co-Pilot |
did not bail-out |
OK |
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Details courtesy of Mrs Barbara Bates, Roger K. Bates'
wife
, Lincoln, California
http://www.303rdbg.com/359stocks.html
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21st February 1945 |
Burt Newark |
Pilot |
bailed out
POW |
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USAAF |
P-51 Mustang |
WZ
"Lady Eve" |
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hit by flak strafing German trains near
Frankfurt. Aircraft caught fire. Bailed Out landing in a tree. |
Frankfurt, Germany |
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26th February 1945 |
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26th February 1945 |
Capt. James Lyons |
Pilot |
|
Res |
USAAF |
B-29 Superfortress |
|
40th Bomb Group. Chakulia to the west of
Calcutta |
Damaged by Japanese fighter while on
unescorted photo-reconnaissance mission to Singapore |
Bailed out over the Bay of Bengal on
return from mission |
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Mills Bale |
Co-pilot |
|
Res |
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Pfc. J. M. Moffit
|
CFC gunner |
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MIA |
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1st Lt. William Kintis |
Bombardier |
seriously wounded- unconscious
-egress by other crew using static line |
MIA |
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TSgt. John Topolski |
Radar operator |
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Res |
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TSgt. Louis Sandrick |
Left gunner |
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Res |
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Sgt. J. J. Carney |
tailgunner |
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MIA |
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SSgt. Anthony P. Peleckis |
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Res |
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Lt. Frank Thorp |
flight engineer |
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Res |
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Lt. Nathan Teplick
|
navigator |
|
Res |
|
Vernon Lester |
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Res |
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15th March 1945 |
Staffelkapitän
Rudolf Trenkel |
pilot |
|
wounded |
Luftwaffe |
Bf 109 G-14 “Black 12” |
WkNr. 465 260 |
2./JG 52 |
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shot down by flak |
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31st March 1945 |
1st Lt.
Richard L. "Dick" "Spider" Smith |
pilot |
caught by foot when bailing out
caught arm on tail fin - broke his
arm |
injured |
USAAF |
P-51D Mustang
"5E"
"Easy Does it" |
41-3557 |
1st Scouting Force 8th Air Force
Basingbourn, England |
Sweep over Leipzig |
Engine quite over English Channel at approx. 0900
LINK
I'd like to express my appreciation to Dick "Spider" Smith for
allowing the use of his photograph and the links to his autobiography |
Inglemunster, Belgium |
|
4th April 1945
2nd bale-out |
Oberleutnant
Franz Schall |
pilot |
see also
8th November 1944 |
OK |
Luftwaffe |
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8th April 1945 |
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8th
April 1945 |
Capt.
Richard Benson |
pilot |
(Sqn
Cdr) |
OK |
USAAF |
B-24
Liberator |
0774825 |
23
Sqn
5th Bomb Group
13th
Airforce
based on Samar
Island in the Philippines, but staged out of Puerta
Princessa Airport on Palawan Island |
bombing
mission against oil refinery - Saigon |
combat
with 9 Japanese Zero fighters - lost 3 engines
Crew rescued by Submarine "Cobia".
More details on the website belonging
to
see also
LINK
I'd like to express my appreciation to Jean Vandruff for
allowing the use of his photograph and the links to his autobiography |
Java
Sea |
Lt. Jean V. "Van" Vandruff |
co-pilot |
|
OK |
|
19yr
old crew member |
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OK |
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Gareth
Clift |
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OK |
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????? |
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OK |
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Jim
Steiner |
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OK |
|
???
"Rocky"
Stahl |
Bombardier |
|
OK |
|
??? |
Radar
Officer |
chute
failed |
Killed |
12th April 1945
5th bale-out |
Gruppenkommandeur Günther Schack |
pilot |
see also
22nd October 1941.
16th January 1944,
17th September 1944,
6th October 1944, |
OK |
Luftwaffe |
Bf 109 |
|
I./JG 51 |
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shot down in combat |
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1st May 1945 |
Oberfeldwebel Heinz "Negus" Marquardt |
pilot |
he had been shot down seven times previously in his career |
wounded later PoW |
Luftwaffe |
Fw 190 D-9 |
|
13./JG 51 |
top cover |
intercepted by six Spitfire XIV of 41 Sqn, RAF and shot down |
Lake Schwerin |
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6th June 1945 |
2nd Lt Roy B. Marker |
pilot |
Bailed Out |
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USAAF |
P-40 |
14th Airforce, 5th Fighter Group
Flying Tigers |
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He was shot down during a dogfight in
which he had shot down one Oscar |
over China |
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23rd June 1945 |
Bill Chowns |
pilot |
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RAF |
Squadron 136 |
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mid air collision |
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Date |
crew who bailed out |
position |
notes |
status |
Air Force |
A'cft |
Unit / Serial |
based |
mission |
cause |
crashed |