Mission
Photos
April 1945
April
4: Wesendorf A/F base
446th
Bomb Group Commanding Officer Troy Crawford is seen on the right with General
Timberlake on the left. Crawford was flying as an observer in an RAF Mosquito
when his plane was mistaken for a German ME 262 jet fighter and shot down
by his own crews
A
Mosquito, the type of plane in which Col Crawford was flying when he was shot
down. He and his pilot were taken prisoner, but their luft stalag was liberated
10 days later
April
11: Regensburg
1/Lt
Hulet Mack was one of 22 crewmen killed when 2 planes collided over the base
at the end of the mission
April
18: Passau
My
father's plane bombing the marshalling yards at Passau. Can you see him in
the nose turret?
April
25: Salzburg
The
final mission for the 446th. Time to go home after a job well done. Thanks,
guys!
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