B26 "Sheboygan Redskin"

42-96213 "Sheboygan Redskin", coded H9-C, 394th BG / 586th BS
Lost on 19th March 1945. Shot down by flak after the bomb run on the mission to Haltern, Germany.
MACR#13040. Pilot, Lt. Eber J Arnold. 3 crew killed, 3 captured.
 
Link below has an illustration of Sheboygan Redskin, scroll down to 586th Bomb Squadron:
 
http://www.markstyling.com/b26_research.13.htm

Interestingly both Pilot and Bombadier are not listed as missing.  Wonder how that happened.  If I had their IDPFs I could maybe figure out where the plane came down and if the pilot is still in the wreck.  But then, even if i find the site and report it to JPAC, it would still be years before we would see a recovery.  Danny

According to ABMC, the pilot and bombadier are not listed as missing.  This would indicate they were found after the war and returned to the US.  Danny

On this database of Remains not Recovered after WWII,  (this may be the same thing  SSG Keay refers to above but a link was not given),  only Turner still is listed.   Neither Sherry or Arnold are on the list.  I would agree their bodies were recovered/identified in the late 40s, after the first MIA lists were printed.
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/wwii/reports/

There are probably a couple of  possibilities.
1. The Germans may have been unable to identify the bodies, but removed and buried them .  Those bodies were recovered after the war and it took a while to identify them. Perhaps the Germans never recovered the third body.  If the plane burned on the ground, it is possible that a body was destroyed beyond recovery.   I am not sure how fast the US was able to identify "unknowns" after the war.  They have been recovered quite soon after the war, but it took quite a while for the US to identify them.
 
2. All the bodies remained in the wreck and a US recover team was able to find/identify two of them but not the third.
 
If there are no records of the US doing any recovery on the crash site it may be the first possibility.   I will search a little more and see if I can find anything else, but I am not real hopeful.

My father is Reuben Hartje who was one of 3 survivors in this crash. He passed away last June 2009. Lewis Guernsey is the sole surviving Veteran of this crash.  Both he and my father were POW's at different camps post capture.

There is two further H9*C coded aircraft known to me. These were 43-34286 and 44-68160. I do not know if they also carried any name, so any information about these or any other B-26 Marauder aircraft, is most welcome.
Regrettably in my research, including listing EVERY man and aircraft from Crew Loading Lists, I am finding that there is many errors that keep cropping up about about aircraft names, codes and serial number combination's. Most of these appear somewhere on the web, get copied by others, and then start to become 'de facto' by default! For example there is at least four aircraft names used by the 394th that were used on at least three aircraft. These were Thumper, Victory Read, Booby Trap and Invadin Maiden. There is pictures of some of these on the web which are clearly not the correct combination's, as they show the different painting of the aircraft, sometimes with the serial number clearly showing, but with the wrong text attached with them! Photo's and more photo's are needed to prove each and every combination! With also a (#X) showing if this is the same name, but on a different aircraft!
ww2buddies.com has a lot of good photo's and I am working with them to clear up a few errors that appear there.
Mutley. B-26 researcher

I wanted to reply to this forum.  Lewis Guernsey is alive and lives in Ionia, Michigan, 48846.  He has tried to reply to this forum.  Lewis is just now learning how to be on the net.  He would like to answer any questions about his capture and what actual happened the day that his plane went down.  Please feel free to contact him at: lewguern@ionia-mi.net--he would be thrilled to have a contact.
Sincerely, Nan Spaulding (Flag Lady)

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I wanted to reply to this forum.  Lewis Guernsey is alive and lives in Ionia, Michigan, 48846.  He has tried to reply to this forum.  Lewis is just now learning how to be on the net.  He would like to answer any questions about his capture and what actual happened the day that his plane went down.  Please feel free to contact him at: lewguern@ionia-mi.net--he would be thrilled to have a contact.
Sincerely, Nan Spaulding (Flag Lady)

I tried to get in tough with mr Guernsey, but no respond until today, and 1 time the email was returned, i hope that the email shown in this post is correct.

 just learing to reply or using this net, have much news,now  I will see if this goes thro. Write me on E mail I don't have your address, lew yes I was a P O W .