Date: 1943 Nov29/29			A/C Type: P-38 H Lightning		SN: 42-67020		Code:		A/C Nickname: Flying Wolf
File: 280		Airforce: USAAF		Sqn/Unit: 55 FG - 38 FS			Mission/Raid: Bomber escort to Bremen
1	Pilot	Major Milton Joel         MIA					9
2							10
3							11
4							12
5							13
6							14
7							15
8							16
Was on route back to the UK and one of the P-38s that were shot down over the eastern IJsselmeer coast on Nov. 29. Assumed crashed in Lake IJsselmeer (Old Zuyer Sea). Pilot MIA.

Post war a P-38 Lightning wreck was recovered in the Lake near the Northeast-Polder dyke. Aircraft was not identified and no human remains were found, but it could have been Major Joel's aircraft, based on elimination, the crash position the other P-38s in the area (Meppel) and the discription of the dogflight.     








































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  Sources/Read more:

- http://www.station131.co.uk/55th/Pilots/38th%20Pilots/Joel%20Milton%20Maj.htm 
- MACR
- http://www.cieldegloire.com/014_joel_m.php 
- About the dog-fight in which Major Joel was lost: http://www.basher82.nl/Data/foreign/CampButler/Gilbride.htm 







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