Bill Frantz Moore
Military ROLL OF HONOURMurdered by Gestapo.
A. L. DESTRO II
Shortly after hitting the target, the B-24 was hit by flak and ran short of fuel. The entire crew bailed out over Uddel, Gelderland, The Netherlands.
1Lt Bill Moore was captured by the Dutch Underground and after being moved around in Apeldoorn, he was eventually captured by the Germans in October 1944.
Finally Bill Moore was executed at the King William III Barracks, Apeldoorn, December 2nd 1944.
29 April 1944 was the day the liberator of Bill F Moore got shot at. The B-24 could still fly but would not reach England. The crew jumped out of the plane, the plane crashed on a farm at the Elspeterweg in Uddel. The nineteen year old Gemmigje Mulder died because of that crash. The crew landed safely on the ground and hid themselves in the woods. They got noticed by a wild hunter and he contacted the resistance.
On bikes the people of the resistance drove them to hiding place from family Kliest on the Valkenberglaan 23.
On 1 October they left this hiding place in fear of treason. The moved to a house in the parcs, but on the same day there was a German raid on that hiding place. Four of them were hiding at that moment eccept for Bill and he got arrested. There was a second raid on the house but George Paulk, Floyd Rexdale, David Smith and John Low were able to escape the house.
Bill was moved to the Willem III Kazerne where the SD interrogated him to find out where the other four were and to tell where he had been hiding. He kept his mouth shut and because of that he was executed on 2 December 1944.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group 788th Bomb Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Atlanta, Georgia, USA | 10 April 1922 | |
Died |
Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 29 April 1944 | |
Other Assassinated / Murdered |
Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 29 April 1944 | Bill Moore was executed at the King William III Barracks, Apeldoorn, December 2nd 1944. |
Revisions
This is Bill Moore’s grave and my granddad, Bart Holtman. The story I was told is that people in the Netherlands adopted Bill Moore’s grave. They in turn hired my granddad to take care of it. Bill Moore’s family wanted to know what it looked like and so they took this picture for his family. Thank you for your service Bill Moore.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4944 / MACR 4944, Silent Heroes Among Us ISBN 1-884687-07-5 Interview with Edgar pp. 127-132. Crew picture p. 128. Also Watts book p83 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database