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Missing Air Crew Report 13846
Military Record · United States Army Air Forces · 1945 · Missing Air Crew Reports
Sortie2ADB-24Missing in Action
44-50697.Over Bayreuth.
Mission 928 · 05 April 1945
Serial
44-50697
B-24M
Fuselage Code
GO
Squadron
328th
Ted's Traveling Circus
The crew.
§ No manifest catalogued
No crew manifest has been catalogued for this sortie yet. The men aboard are not unknown so much as unrecovered — a loading list or an interrogation form would name them.
The flight.
§ Ship’s Record
The Day
Took off fromHardwick (Sta. 104)
The Record
ResultMissing in Action
Record confidenceValidated against a source
Formation
Flew with328th Squadron
Fuel & Equipment
H2X scope photoNo
The target.
§ As Briefed
Bayreuth
As the log wrote itBayreuth
Notes.
§ From the Record
B-24M serial 44-50697, assigned to the 328th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group, departed Hardwick on 5 April 1945 on a bombing mission to Bayreuth. Eyewitness F/O John H. Van Zandt, flying as co-pilot in ship 157-L of the same squadron, observed the aircraft crossing the Dutch coast at approximately 400–600 feet altitude on the return leg. The aircraft was being engaged by 20mm and 40mm flak fire. The aircraft initiated a steep bank to the left, apparently attempting to evade the fire. Van Zandt's engineer, S/Sgt Ernest H. Fleming, reported that the plane completed a 180-degree turn and was observed inverted at the end of the maneuver. Last known position was 5130N 0330E at 1204 hours. Nine crew members were aboard; all were reported Missing in Action as of the date of the report, 9 April 1945.
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United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1945
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