Casualty Report from November 7, 1944
Detail
MACR: 99931
Target: Practice mission, simulating attacks against tactical targets
Base: Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk, England
Crash: Fire in the cockpit may have been caused by flares. The aircraft crashed into some Coast Guard cottages at Felixstowe killing three members of a British AA unit and severely burning a fourth. Three crewmen were killed and buried at Cambridge.
Squadron: 349th BS - 100th BG (H)
Time of loss: 14:39
Aircraft
Aircraft #: 42-97561
Aircraft Type: B-17G
Aircraft Name: Batchelors Heaven
Aircraft Code: XR-
Pilot: 1Lt John T. Dyatt | O-763874
POS: P
Status: KIA
State: Kansas
Notes: Final Internment - USA
Copilot: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | O-000000
POS: CP
Status: MIA/KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
NAV: Lt Ralph Bohlssen | O-000000
POS: NAV
Status: Survivor
State: State N/A
Notes: Severely Injured
BOM: Lt Preston Wallace | O-000000
POS: BOM
Status: Survivor
State: State N/A
Notes: Severely Injured
ROG: TSgt Nelson B. McCain | 00000000
POS: ROG
Status: Survivor
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
TTE: SSgt Donald A. Gustavson | 19183922
POS: TTE
Status: KIA
State: California
Notes: Final Internment - USA
BTG: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | 00000000
POS: BTG
Status: MIA/KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
RWG: SSgt August F. Kienitz | 00000000
POS: RWG
Status: Survivor
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
LWG: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | 00000000
POS: LWG
Status: MIA/KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
TG: SSgt C.T. Romano | 00000000
POS: TG
Status: Survivor
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
EX1: Capt Stanley A. Clark | 0417600
POS: CMD P
Status: KIA
State: Texas
Notes: Final Internment - Cambridge C-3-50
EX2: Lt Harry Tennebaum | N/A
POS: RAD NAV
Status: Survivor
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
Crew Notes
T/Sgt Nelson flew as Radar Operator
Report Notes
Notes on this report N/A
