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L5 crashed in Belgium
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07/12/2006 08:57:04 AM
Hi All,
On september 8th 1944 a L5 was shot down by FW190 and ditched in the river Meuse at Ivoz-Ramez, near Laneuville bridge. ( Liège /Huy area)
Could it be this one:
Markings: 8*R - Serial unknown
67th TRG,153rd LS
Pilot: S/Sgt Mikeman Keneth C,18129164, KIA, buried at Neupré cemetary Belgium
Passenger or observer:Col.Thornberry.Don't know whether KIA or not. Not in ABMC Data base.
If it's not this a/c, which one could it be?
Thanks a lot
Philippe
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RE: L5 crashed in Belgium
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09/18/2006 03:09:35 AM
Philippe ,
Just let you know that S/Sgt Kenneth C Mikeman is not buried at Neupré but at Henri-Chapelle.
Alain Rosseels
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RE: L5 crashed in Belgium
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09/18/2006 12:10:20 PM
Your both right:
Mikeman, Kenneth C. S/Sgt. #18129164, temporary burial site at Fosse Cemetery, Namur, Belgium, relcated at request of next of kin to Henri-Chapelle Cemetery, Belgium, Plot "H" Row "&" Grave #9.
Terry T.
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RE: L5 crashed in Belgium
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09/18/2006 01:58:54 PM
Philippe,
Ken Wakefield writes in his great book 'The Fighting Grasshoppers' :
'On the 9th Staff Sergeant Kenneth C. Mikeman, who volunteered for a flight to a Third Army division carrying a Colonel Thornberry, encountered 12-15 Bf 109 fighters and was shot down near Reiet, Belgium. Both pilot and passenger in the L-5 were killed.'
Associate member of the Awon http://www.awon.org/ __________________ Fighters for Victory (357th FG)
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