463rd BG 25-Dec-44 Brux, Czechslovakia South Synthetic Oil Refinery Aircraft sent: 27 Aircraft lost: 1 Bombing results: Fair Enemy aircraft:0 |
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Translated into English: In the most recent air attack in 1944 at a chemical plant STW Záluží in which 25 December 1944 carried out by the US 15th Air Army from its bases in southern Italy, he was a German anti-aircraft artillery that defended the area around the chemical plant, a four-engine bomber shot down Boeing B – 17G Flying Fortress , from the state of 463 Bomb group. The machine crashed after being hit into the space between the already existent Dřínov village and the castle lake. For the nine-member crew, four men were killed. It was the radio operator T / Sgt Zelah G. McBride and gunners S / Sgt Walter R. West, S / Sgt David R. Mc Cleary and S / Sgt George A. Roggenbuck. Another five crew members were taken prisoner, and lived to see the end of the war. Perished airmen were buried at the cemetery in Dřínov, where their remains were exhumed after the war and taken to the cemetery of Allied soldiers to France and from there to the United States. The crew of a Boeing B – 17G (art. No. 44-6631), from the state of 463 Bomb Group, 773 Squadron: Pilot – 1st / Lt L. Claude Rains, Co / Pilot – 1st / Lt Henry F. Renard, Navigator – 2nd / Lt Harvey L. Eustrom, Bombardier – 1st / Lt Ernest F. Scanlon, Engineer – T / Sgt Earl C. Welborn jr., Radio / Operator – T / Sgt Zelah G. McBride jr. (+) Low Waist Gunner – S / Sgt Walter R. West (+) Bail Turret Gunner – S / Sgt David R. McCleary (+) Tail Gunner – S / Sgt George A. Roggenbuck (+).
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