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Crash site
Place where 42-3436 crashed on October 14, 1943 - 13.45 h local time. Tail part in The Netherlands Nose part in Germany Missing - nose - Donald Paul Breeden/co-pilot Probably interred with Martin and/or Manley Source: George Kuhl - Wrong Place! Wrong Time! - page 149 KIA - nose - William James Martin/navigator - Harvey Arlie Manley/bombardier KIA - tail - Leonard Roy Henlin/left waist gunner - Robert G Wells /right waist gunner All others POW Krems /17b - Hosea Crawford - Dominic Lepore - Arthur Linrud - Benjamin Roberts Sagan/3 - Dennis McDarby
Plan of Finkenrath showing the orchard where Mr. Heinz Michels watched the crash and the place of the crash he and Klara Wauters mention in a book about Finkenrath.
Decision Board of Review 1951 after investigation into Mr Donald Paul Breeden's MIA on October 14, 1943.
Conclusion investigation in December 1948 and January 1949 into Mr Donald Paul Breeden's MIA on October 14, 1943.
The nose part of #42-3436 crashed near German Finkenrath - a small village near Merkstein and Aachen. The tail end crashed in Dutch Eygelshoven.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 305th Bomb Group Can Do
Donald Paul Breeden served as pilot with the 364th Bomb Squadron of the 305th Bomb Group. His B-17 #423436 was shot down 14 October 1943 over the Netherlands and Breeden was declared Missing in Action (MIA).
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 305th Bomb Group Can Do
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3436. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 305th Bomb Group Can Do
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #423436. Killed in Action (KIA).
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 15/6/43; Redmond 15/8/43; Assigned 96BG 16/8/43; transferred 364BS/305BG [WF-R] Chelveston 18/9/43;
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14 October 1943
This was the 2nd mission flown against the ball bearing industry at Schweinfurt, Germany and was as equally disastrous as that flown on 17-Aug-43. It came to be known as "Black Thursday". While fighter escort was dispatched, bad weather and lack of...
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| 22 November 2016 11:39:56 | wimhm.slangen | Created entry with name, latitude, longitude, history, person associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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