Unidentified ship.Over Cologne Airfield (Koeln).

A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (designated Boeing Fortress II in German records) assigned to the 93rd Bomb Group was shot down on 2 March 1944 at approximately 13:00 hours near Sieglar, by the western outskirts of Siegburg, Germany. German capture and casualty reports processed by the Army Air Base Command at Cologne-Ostheim (Koeln-Ostheim) recorded the loss. The aircraft serial number was unknown to German authorities. The cause of the downing was not definitively established — German forms listed the cause as unknown, with flak, fighter, and night fighter all listed as possibilities. German records noted the aircraft was 98% destroyed ("98% breakage") upon impact. The crash site was documented in German Casualty Report on Allied Aviators No. 25, covering the period 23 February to 2 March 1944, and was assigned German administrative reference AV 658/44. The crew of ten included seven killed in action (KIA) and three who became prisoners of war (PDD — German abbreviation for prisoners). Eight of the dead were buried in the Old Cemetery of Sieglar, at the right side of the entrance, on 4 March 1944.