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<p>[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 2106343, member: 19250"]There's one more part to this pilots log book. That I'm going to share. The date entry 11-30 -44 mission #14</p><p>Target Lutzkendorf Ger. Flight from Bury, St. Edmunds.</p><p>It seemed he listed this as a mid air crash in his log book. But what it really was trying to get a crippled B - 17 back to base. As one of the B - 17 took some heavy hits from anti aircraft fire as well as Nazi fighters planes tried to break the B - 17 formation. One plane that was hit bad and had it's crew wounded he was trying to help the plane back to base. Flying cover then along side to give the wounded crew some hope making it back to base.</p><p>On the approach the two planes clipped wings. His plane went down on a farm the other did not make it. It was determined that the pilot had died at the controls as he bleed out from the wounds.</p><p>His crew had no injuries and walked away. He often told his children and grand children that they always should eat Brussels sprouts as you never know who they might save. As the farm his plane landed was a Brussels sprouts farm. His wife told me this story yesterday as we talked.</p><p>She also said he never made a big deal about trying his best to save the wounded B - 17 and it's crew.</p><p>That was the code in those days.... you did what you would want done for you and your crew...... [ATTACH=full]397199[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]397200[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 2106343, member: 19250"]There's one more part to this pilots log book. That I'm going to share. The date entry 11-30 -44 mission #14 Target Lutzkendorf Ger. Flight from Bury, St. Edmunds. It seemed he listed this as a mid air crash in his log book. But what it really was trying to get a crippled B - 17 back to base. As one of the B - 17 took some heavy hits from anti aircraft fire as well as Nazi fighters planes tried to break the B - 17 formation. One plane that was hit bad and had it's crew wounded he was trying to help the plane back to base. Flying cover then along side to give the wounded crew some hope making it back to base. On the approach the two planes clipped wings. His plane went down on a farm the other did not make it. It was determined that the pilot had died at the controls as he bleed out from the wounds. His crew had no injuries and walked away. He often told his children and grand children that they always should eat Brussels sprouts as you never know who they might save. As the farm his plane landed was a Brussels sprouts farm. His wife told me this story yesterday as we talked. She also said he never made a big deal about trying his best to save the wounded B - 17 and it's crew. That was the code in those days.... you did what you would want done for you and your crew...... [ATTACH=full]397199[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]397200[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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