Reality began and ended for Crew 118 on 12/22/43

379th, 524th Sq. - Crew 118

• Eyewitness Account:  November 2001 

• Question?    Did the crew bail out or drown?

• Newspaper Account on the Missing Crew

• Poetry Memorial in Newspaper

• "Sada" The Girl He Left Behind

• About The Plane

• Pictures on Base

• Other Pictures

• Following the Paper Trail

• A survivor of "Deacon's Sinners" 
  (one of the planes that also went on this mission) Questions why he was spared . . .

• The Messerschmitt BF109-F4 "Franz"
  The Enemy Plane that Shot them Down

The Messerschmitt Bf 109

ID# 0-802000
MACR: 1718

- Plane B17F -  42-29724 - Code Letters LF-H
- A/C belonged to the 526th BS although the
   entire crew was from the 524th BS
- A/C wore the nickname "Little Minnie"
- Arrived Kimbolton, England on or about 
   November 1943
- Plane Ditched/North Sea - 12/22/1943
- 379th's 51st Mission 
- Target:  Osnabruck

 

The B-17

B-17 Pictures

Born: April 5, 1919  - MIA/KIA   December 22, 1943
MEDALS: Purple Heart, Flying Cross,  Air Medal,  2 Citations

 
Memorial Margraten,Netherlands