Shot down 13 May 1944 in B-17 #4237978. Landed in Sweden. Interned. Mr father's firt mission was in B'17G #42-37978 'KaLang', on May 13, 1944, when 289 B-17s were dispatched to hit oil targets in Western Poland; but clouds forced 215 of them, including my father's, to drop their on the city of Stettin; 10 bombers were lost and 81 damaged; my father's plane was hit by flak and lost one engine; with only a half hour of fuel remaining, they turned north and came down in Sweden. My father was interned there from may 13, '44 until Nov 1, 1944 when he and the rest of his crew returned to England in a Red Cross prisoner exchange. He landed in Washington DC on election, Nov 6 1944. He was training Bombardiers in Phoenix, AZ when the war ended in Augest 1945.