B-17G ser. Nr. 44-6640

Zdravím z Česka.Zajímám se o B-17G,ser.Nr.44-6640,od 463 rd BG,775 bs,která se zřítila 24.3.1945 u obce Černíkovice,když se vracela z náletu na Berlín. Jirka

Mike:                                                                                                           jde mi o vše co se tyká teto mise/sorry do not know how much english/The bomber crashed near my resisdence ja,I would like to issue a publication on this galvanized and crew.This year it will be 65 years since this mise.Rad like to look at her with us not forget. hank you so much                          jrka852@seznam.cz

Thanks Mike                                                                                                            this is more of my photos of the crew and links to them,or famili.Z portalu www:463rd...samozřejmě čerpám.Tato crew was made before the mision Berlin.Nikdy together neletěli.B-17G  44-6640 called guot "Laetitia".  Apologize for bad english Jirka

Hi Mike,                                                                                                           yes I can get the mam.Ale nemohu sehnat photo posádky.Help give me links with families and I can not sehnat.Ja know it s difficult,but giving up to.Jsem Those very grateful and I advice in connection with Tebou.Thank much JIrka

Mike,                                                                                                          yes the book mam,bud it  s není,B-17G-44/6640 should be guot"Laetitia".I am not anythyng sehnat.Thank you for your help  Jirka

I'm writing a book about ”Laetitia“ B17G-44-6640, which crashed near my cityAppreciate any help. Thanks   March 24, 1945 Mission Berlin

HIstory of A/C 44-6640:  Del Lincoln 2/10/44;  Dow Fd 13/10/44;  ass 775BS/463BG Celone 24/10/44;  MIA Berlin 24/3/45 w/Wilson;  flak, cr Pilsen;  MACR 13371.  LAETITIA.

Howard thank you...

I spoke with Dale Albright for a time yesterday.  A very nice gentleman.  I plan to speak with him more later.  He and his family are planning to visit CZ, Cernikovice later this year, probably June, he told me.  At 86 years of age, that would be a daunting trip but hopefully he will be able to go.
Now, how would you like to receive the information I have regarding "Laetitia", a/c # 44-6640 and her crew?  I have the MACR (which you probably already have), interviews with 3 of the crew members and the basic history of what transpired that fateful day, 24 March 1945.  I can send it all via email if you wish.  I still do not have a photo of "Laetitia" and I have looked through all of my archived bomber photos but do not find one there.  It would be unusual for Dale Albright to have a photo of that plane but he might.
Advise me how you would like to receive the materials.
 
And Howard, I know that PIlsen is where the bomber is listed as crashing but it was not even close to Pilsen when it went down.  It was on the outskirts of the village Cernikovice, near Rychnov nad Kneznou (sp?) approx. 140km east of Prague.  This is quite near the southern Polish border while Pilsen is much nearer the western border of CZ closer to Austria.  I don't know where the researcher came up with the Pilsen site unless that was the area (Brux - now Most)  where the plane was last seen by the group after being hit by flak.  The only reason I am confident of this is because I stood in the field where the bomber crashed near Cernikovice and I have seen parts of the airplane in the museum there as well as a plaque laid in the town square honoring the crew members of this plane.  Not to put down the researcher or yourself at all, but rather to correct some misinformation.  My father's plane also went down that day but they were able to make it to the Russian lines before bailing out.

Well, Jirka, since I cannot speak, read or write Czech, I would have little idea of what Libor Parizek wrote regarding the fate of "Laetitia", A/C # 44-6640 and her crew.  But having said that, I spoke at length with 4 of the crew members before they died and they all gave pretty much the same description of what transpired on that day, 24 March 1945 and the days following until the end of the war and their liberation.  So I am confident of their story being relatively accurate.  I have not spoken at length with Dale Albright but I do intend to do so soon.  I have not read what you have written regarding that day and the days following either so far be it from me to judge your writings against that of Mr. Parizek.  I do know that while three of the crew members and myself were in the Czech Republic as guests of the  Czech people of Cernokovice, we learned many things, saw many sights and were generally treated very. very well.  The Czech people did not care if what a person had written was accurate or not, they simply wished to thank the American airmen for fighting for their freedom, nothing more or less.
 
Having said that, I will tell you that I consider Libor and Magda Parizek as my friends and always will, whether what he wrote about "Laetitia" was 100% accurate or not.
 
I wish you the very best in your future research endeavors.