UPL 25733
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Norman B Cooler after capture with Luftwaffe guards en route from the aircraft crash site to Luftwaffe airfield in Bory, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14169506
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer/ Top Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Thumper
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Correction to previous source message:
'Just noticed an error I made in the write-up I sent you - should read “South to Klatow” not ”North to Klatow”'
Wes Cooler
Sent through to the American Air Museum by Norman Cooler's nephew, Wes Cooler III. He provided the following information:
The photo of him as a POW was provided to me by Jaromir Kohout, a Pilsen resident and amateur historian who obtained the photo from the man who took it. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time. My son and I visited the crash site with Jaromir.
He had eyewitness accounts of the events of that day and was able to take us to the crash site and along the route Norman took from his capture until he was put on a train heading north to Klatow, and on to a short stay at a German labor camp in either the Bohemian Forest or across the border in the Bavarian Forest.