Posted By Jelle Reitsma on June 13, 2006 at 09:57:33:
In Reply to: Re: Robert Zercher, Floyd Ragsdale, Philip Cavanaugh and the other crewmembers of a B-17G posted by Vic Walzel on June 12, 2006 at 17:39:31:
: Hello Vic,
: Many thanks for your immediate reply. It helps me quite a bit to get the story complete.
: I think that your reference to the B-17G "Karen B" 42-39920 -D of the 452nd BG, 729th Squadron is correct. However, I am fairly sure about the location where the plane crashed - I have the eyewitness report of the farmer describing the plane coming down on his shed. So Lieren is probably correct. You wrote that the plane failed to return due to flak. Could it be that Karen B was hit by flak over Ruurlo (Rurrio,?) and tried to fly on in a westerly direction? Ruurlo - Lieren is only 20 miles apart and the planning maps that I have seen for this particular mission on a Berlin railway show a route back to Deopham Green just south of Apeldoorn.
Thank you for the reference to the MACR 4449; I will contact Lynn.Gamma@MAXWELL.AF.MIL for sure.
Yours sincerely,
Jelle