Date: 1944 Feb 24/24			A/C Type: B-17F   Fortress		SN: 42-3136		Code: DS-P		A/C Nickname: No Balls at All
File: 448		Airforce: USAAF		Sqn/Unit: 351 BG - 511 BS			Mission/Raid: Schweinfurt
1	Pilot	2Lt. Walter B. LeClerc          all crew POW					9	RWG	Sgt. John L. Taylor
2	Co-pilot	2Lt. James W. Ellis					10	TG	Sgt. Harald H. Hay
3	Nav.	2Lt. George T. Kilduff					11
4	B	2Lt. Arthur W. Starratt					12
5	E	S/Sgt. Ralph A. Grooms					13
6	RO	S/Sgt. Bruce M. Stone					14
7	BTG	Sgt. Howard W. Kramer					15
8	LWG	Sgt. Archie L. Stirnsbaugh					16
On route back from target, Flak caused that five men had to bail out (POW). The other five gradually descended. Light Flak shot other engines out. They had to belly land SW of Amsterdam, in a field between village Vijfhuizen and Schiphol airfield (all POW).

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