Hi. No change done to this record. Just a precision.

 

I'm member of the association Honfleur 39-45 managing the museum  "blockhaus de la gare" in Honfleur where we display the canopy of concerned planed.

 

You are welcome if you travel to Honfleur, Normandy, lovely small town in the east of landing beaches. Feel free to contact me or the association to organize a guided or private visit.

Web site is http://www.blockhausdelagare.fr/

Any information as last digit of ID number and take off hour is welcome. As welle as a photography of the pilot to complete our display.

This plane crashed near Honfleur-France. See details below.

 

Wreck as been blowned by Germans the day after the crash.

All of what follows is confirmed by the memory of people experimenting this hard landing and of theirs descendants.

 

According to MACR (Major Accident Control Regulations) # 6667

Airplane :Republic Thunderbolt P47D
’’Razorback’’ Type D22-RE
S/N : 42-26143 – ID : R3*?
Unit : 373rd FG-410th FS-9thAF
Pilot : 2Lt Heckel H BROWN
Take off from Station 419
Woodchurch - Kent – UK
Date : July 06th 1944
Mission : Bombing and straffing on Etampes (91)
Crash at 18h00 in Ablon (S-E of Honfleur)
Cause : Engine failure
Pilot status : Prisonner of war 
O-816497 in stalag Luft 1 Barth Vogelsang

 

MACR 6667 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database