Robert Borst
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down on 8/15/44 in B-24 'Ramblin Wreck' #41-28932. Crashed at Gelderingen, Evaded (EVD).
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Crash site
Crash site of B-24 Ramblin' Wreck from the 466th Bomb Group, flown by Robert Harrington on August 15, 1944. Harrington and three other B-24s, including True Love flown by Jack Archer, were shot down by Me-109s around 1pm after bombing the Vechta Luftwaffe base. Three crew members of Ramblin' Wreck were killed in the attack - Chester Zyb, William Julian and Tice Jones. Pilot Harrington and Bombadier Bob Borst successfully evaded, and the remainder of the crew were captured by German soldiers.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down on 8/15/44 in B-24 'Ramblin Wreck' #41-28932. Crashed at Gelderingen, Evaded (EVD).
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Bob Harrington piloted the B-24 "Troublemaker" (#42-95067), stationed at Attlebridge in the summer of 1944. After nine missions with Troublemaker, on August 15, 1944 he was called up to fly an unfamiliar aircraft, Ramblin' Wreck (#41-28932), with a...
B-24 Liberator
This aircraft's last mission was on August 15, 1944, when it was flown by a makeshift crew led by pilot Robert W. Harrington from Attlebridge air base. The target was a Luftwaffe airfield in Vechta, near Bremen, Germany. The target was successfully...
15 August 1944
Airfields in NW Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium are the primary targets for this mission. 8th Air Force despatches a total of 932 aircraft. The raid is coordinated with 1,000 Royal Air Force (RAF) heavy bombers and Mosquitos attacking 9 airfields...
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23 May 2017 11:41:43 | Clark B | Changes to history |
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Clark Beyer |
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23 May 2017 11:39:58 | Clark B | Changes to history and person associations |
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Clark Beyer from interview with Bob Harrington, August 2004. Film excerpts from "Troublemaker - A Pilot's Story of WWII" by Clark Beyer, copyright 2005. |
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10 October 2015 23:37:53 | 466thHistorian | Created entry with name, latitude, longitude, person associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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466th BG Historian |