Hello,
 
I`m still investigating the loss of the Nash crew on october 8th 1943. (Look http://forum.armyairforces.com/m_88100/tm.htm) In the Public Record Office in Londen are documents showing a case of war crime against an unknown airman near the village DAULSEN in october 1943 not far from the village EISSEL where probably the B-17 #42-30840 crashed. This unknown airman must be an american, because he wore a "blue bunny suite". Four germans were accused to forced the airman to lay down his clothes, then he was beaten and kicked. The statement from a polish worker shows that one of the germans asked the airman something and he answered that he is an american with an age of 27. When my informations are right, then only Sgt. Stanley Nowakowski was 27. Is there anyone who has or had have contact to one of the survivors of the Nash crew, or more informations about the loss of the crew?
 
Best regards from Germany
 
Jens-Michael

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Jmb - According to Bombadier Lt. Hogsett :" Sgt. Patrick Neilon was badly injured when they
Bailed out. Lt. Hogsett pulled him from a Pond and laid him on Shore. He tried to get a
German Officer to take him to a Hospital. "
Lt. Hogsett says:  " HE AND REST OF THE CREW  were then taken away."
Sgt. Stanley Nowakowski was a POW - See NARA POW Data Base.
Sgt. Neilon Died - I believe he was the Crewman you Seek.
Source: Century Bombers by Richard Le Strange   Page 46
Mike

Mike,
 
I know the statement from Lt. Hogsett from the 100th BG website. The statement is according to a report from a german girl who saw two airman in the water, one was laying on the ground at the shore, the other one was  standing close to him. This make me sure that Nash crashed near EISSEL and not near DAMME 100 Kilometers far. Damme is given in some sources you can find in the www and also in Freemans FF Story! A piece of evidence is the engine on the ground from lake EISSEL. But who has  the money to pick up it ? One wrong movement and maybe oil pollute the water..... you can pay for that..... a long time in Germany. But that is not the problem here. The kicked and beaten  airman did not die. He was brought together with an other airman, who landed in the same area on barbed wire and was bleeding a little bit,  to the Buergermeister-House in DAUELSEN. The other three of the crew may captured in EISSEL where the a/c crashed. The british court decided in december 1945 that all four accused are not guilty. But there is something wrong at this story. Why should an airman strip his flying suite where he had maybe all his "surviving items" inside ? Was the suit burning? I think no, he was reportet without injuries.
I hope anybody here knows more about this.
 
Jens-Michael
 

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