On 6-September-1942 while serving as Co-Pilot of B-17 #41-24516 'Meltin' Pot' the aircraft lost 2 engines off Londonderry after flight from Newfoundland. Landed in shallow water and all crew members walked ashore.
Shot down 5 April 1943 in B-17 #41-24465 'Montana Power' Prisoner of War (POW). Evasion story in Russell A. Strong's "First Over Germany" tells of landing in Wuustwezel, Belgium and joining with crew mate S/Sergeant William Baker LWG. Got civilian assistance in Belgium and headed to Paris. Somehow the two men got to the express train to Bordeaux, reached the Spanish border and crossed the Pyrenees mountains. Struggling through hills and valleys in cold and snow, they finally made it to Spain. Resting in a hut 6 kilometers over the border, they were awakened by German soldiers. Unfortunately a treaty allowed Germans to arrest errant airmen inside 10K of the border. They were Prisoner of War (POW)s for the rest of the war. Kramarinko was in Stalag 3 and made the forced march from there to Stallag 7A in Moosburg. He changed his name after the war and became Alexander Kramar. See his page at the Belgian COMET evasion network website at http://www.evasioncomete.be/fkramaral.html