Posted By Henk Korenberg on May 25, 2005 at 17:54:28:
After years at last I decided to take action to get some information about something seen by my parents.
On a nice clear Sunday afternoon somewhere in the late 1943 or in the spring or early summer of 1944 my parents both separately from each other saw a four engined bomber coming back from the east flying low-level (treetop high). The reason they start look up on it, was that it was taking gunfire from a so called “lager”, a German army camp in Wezep, a place near Zwolle, the Netherlands. This camp is still in use by the Dutch army and is now called “Prinses Margriet Kazerne”.
What my parents, and I am certain many more must have seen, was that a crew member of this bomber was wingwalking on the bomber trying to fix a engine of the left wing.
This extraordinary thing they still do remember today.
Because of my interest in military aviation in this period, I still have some questions about this case.
First of all I know the information is not much, but you have to start somewhere. I, and my parents as well, are still wondering if this bomber (almost sure it was a B-17), was able to make it to England. Who where these crewmembers, where did they came from, are they still alive, what was their goal on the air raid and what causes the problems on the bomber?
But the first question I would like to ask is: Is there any record or logbook saying anything about this case and was this done more during the war?