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damaged by Fw. Horst Schlick in<br />

Bf 109G-6 of JG 77/1 and ditched 20-30<br />

mi W of Naples, Italy<br />

Sep 4, 1943. 1 POW, 9 rescued. MACR<br />

513. The date in the first page<br />

of the MACR is Oct 4, 1943, which is<br />

wrong.<br />

30347 (301st BG, 419th BS) shot down over<br />

Austria May 29, 1944. MACR 5445.<br />

30348 (390th BG, 569th BS, "Royal Flush")<br />

shot down by fighter of JG 11 near<br />

Oldenburg, Germany Dec 16, 1943. MACR<br />

<strong>17</strong>28. 10 POW<br />

30349 (388th BG, 563rd BS) shot down by Fw<br />

190A of JG 2 at Montgueux,<br />

France Sep 6, 1943. 10 KIA<br />

30350 (388th BG, 563rd BS) ran out of fuel<br />

and ditched in English<br />

Channel 5 mi SW of Isles of Scilly, UK<br />

Dec 5, 1943. Crew rescued.<br />

30353 Roger Freeman says that after service<br />

with 95th BG, 335th BS as<br />

*Ten Knights in the Bar Room* converted<br />

to Aphrodite flying<br />

bomb. Was to have been launched<br />

against marshalling yard at<br />

Herford Dec 5, 1944 but target not<br />

located due to cloud so<br />

directed at Haldorf. Crashed outside<br />

of town. In early 1944 had been sent<br />

to 803rd BS(P) at Oulton as radio<br />

countermeasures aircraft, fitted with<br />

one Jackal set.<br />

30354 (385 BG, 549 BS, 'Hustlin' Hussy') one<br />

engine was disabled<br />

by flak during bomb run over Frankfurt<br />

Jan 29, 1944 and was<br />

subsequently severely damaged by enemy<br />

fighters. Aircraft<br />

was able to reach Belgian airspace<br />

where the<br />

crew bailed out near Chaleroi, Belgium.<br />

MACR 2268 All POW<br />

except the right waist gunner who had

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