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Alain

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1st Lt Williams Clifford crashlanding - 05/03/2007 03:51:29 AM
P-38J-10-LO  #42-67875 flown by 1st Lt Williams Clifford O from the  55FG-343FS made a crashlanding on 05/27/1944 somewhere on the continent.1st Lt Williams was able to evaded. Where did he made this crashlanding , the MACR was 5281 ?
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RE: 1st Lt Williams Clifford crashlanding - 05/03/2007 04:10:39 AM
Alain,
 
From Russ Abbey's website on the 55th:
 
http://www.station131.co.uk/55th/Pilots/343rd%20Pilots/Williams%20Clifford%20O%20Lt.htm
 
 
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RE: 1st Lt Williams Clifford crashlanding - 05/26/2007 03:41:21 PM
Hi alain
 
Clifford Williams plane crahed near the village of Croisilles (10km south of Arras) in the north of france
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RE: 1st Lt Williams Clifford crashlanding - 05/29/2007 01:09:49 AM
Hello ,
 
Thanks for the information
 
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RE: 1st Lt Williams Clifford crashlanding - 07/15/2007 05:20:02 PM
Lt. Williams belly landed in a Sugar Beet field.  Local villagers hid him in the beet and threw his personal belongings and some of his clothing into the burning wreckage and told the Germans that he was still in the plane.  He escaped capture and returned to the UK in September 1944.
 
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