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L-R Ann Sue Egan, Cathleen Jo Egan, Josephine & John Egan

Cleven and Egan re-enacting classic photo 10 years later.

"An Me-109 and a FW-190 joined our lonely B-17, one fighter off each wing. Those pilots gave Horn a "Thumbs down" signal and pointed to a snow-covered field below to indicate where Horn should land. With no alternative, Lt Horn complied and made a smooth wheels-up landing in the snow. The two fighters circled above, then the FW-190 departed the area while the Me-109 lowered his wheels and landed near our a/c, but his landing gear bogged down in the 6" snow and his a/c flipped tail-over-nose. Farm workers held us at bay with guns and pitchforks as we exited the a/c and prevented our dash into the nearby woods to hopefully evade capture as the Me-109 pilot jumped from this over turned a/c, seemingly uninjured, and ran towards us. Soon afterwards some armed Luftwaffe troops arrived on foot, and Horn and our crew were marched off as prisoners to a nearby building. There we were loaded into a truck and driven to the Ulm city jail for a couple of days before being transported to Dulag Luft at Frankfurt em Main"

"We crash-landed near Ulm, with Lt Horn making a super smooth dead-stick, wheels up landing in a snow covered field which we thought was a farmers backyard. As we climbed out of the airplane, we were "greeted" by the very irate farm workers armed with pitchforks and pistols. They held us captive for fifteen to twenty minutes until a half-dozen German military men took control and moved us to the town jail. " "In 1994 Lt Charles Conner returned to Europe and visited the crash site of #508 "Bastard's Bungalow II" in Ulm. According to the MACR, the crew made and emergency landing at Dormstadt and was captured. It seems there was an Airbase at Dormstadt during the war and it had been converted into an old folks home. Upon explaining his mission to the Home's Administrator, she gave Lt Conner and his German friend (a retired NATO pilot from Germany) permission to walk the grounds. We soon found ourselves at the edge of a grassy field with a wooded area some 100 yards of so off to one side, which matched our crews’ mental recollection of our crash site. The retired NATO pilot said that most German wartime fighter bases had grass landing strips and said that because of the very hilly terrain surrounding this former base, that open field was the only flat place large enough to safely land an a/c the size of a B-17 without causing injury to its crew. He also said that the men who aimed their guns at us as we exited our plane were most likely from Germany's Home Guard in charge of farm laborers. Lt Conner and the rest of Lt Horn's crew are now convinced that their crash landing was not in a farmer's backyard as they originally thought but at the edge of what was Dornstadt Air Field. "

Could Bastard's Bungalow II 508 been repaired and used by Luftwaffe for clandestine mission?

did KG 200 repair Bastard's Bungalow II and use it for Clandestine purposes? Still not confirmed.

Carl Hellerich Crew (Right to Left) Standing: LeRoy Duncan, Carl Herrerich, Eddie (Pete) Miller, Bob Blair. Kneeling: Jim Finn, Tony Shiurba, John Clinton, Eddie Whitney. (Photo courtesy of Pat Hardenstine) Hellerich crew information

Robert Knox Crew with Picklepuss. The Legendary Wheels Down Crew. Kneeling L-R: 2nd Lt. Edwin F. Tobin-BOM, Capt Robert M. Knox-Pilot, 2nd Lt. Ernest E. Warsaw-Nav, 2nd Lt. John O. Whitaker-CP. Standing L-R: S/Sgt Frank W. Tychewicz-BTG, T/Sgt Carl T. Simon-TTE, T/Sgt Walter Paulsen-ROG, Unknown, S/Sgt Malcolm K. Maddran-WG, S/Sgt Joseph F. Laspada-WG, S/Sgt Henry A. Norton-TG, unknown (Courtesy of 100th Bomb Group Foundation via Michel Beckers) Shot down Aug 17,1943 by enemy fighters (Hauptmann Von Bonin,Oberleutnant Barte and Leutnant Witzke), the aircraft crashed at Herbesthal Lontzen, 500 meters west of Schmalgraf, near Kelmis, west of Aachen, Belgium. - See more at: http://aircrewremembered.com/knox-robert.html#sthash.INstVvHF.dpuf

Robert A. King T/Sgt on Lt William Wilson Jr Crew.

Lt William J. Wilson Crew Photo taken stateside