B-17G Flying Fortress 42-40054 ‘JINNY’ - Schoonebeek, The Netherlands
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Memorial Crash Site of the B-17G Flying Fortress 42-40054 ‘JINNY’ at the Veenschapsweg near Schoonebeek, The Netherlands
Waymark Code: WM18AWY
Location: Drenthe, Netherlands
Date Posted: 06/30/2023
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Captain Paul Eugene Brown (
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Captain George Curtiss Job (
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Second Lieutenant Joseph Paul Lechowski (
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First Lieutenant John William Duprey (
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Second Lieutenant Rolland Turner Gill (
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Technical Sergeant John Basil Blatz (
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Technical Sergeant Roy Ellsworth Joyce (
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Staff Sergeant Edwin W. Pfanner (
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Staff Sergeant Paul Elbert Moyer (
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Staff Sergeant Walter Scott Reed (
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Staff Sergeant William Angelo Marcario (
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B-17G Flying Fortress 42-40054 ‘JINNY’ (
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The memorial on this crash site reads:
"Returning from a raid on Berlin on Monday 6 March 1944, the B-17G 42-40054 "Jinny" was under attack by a German fighter near the Dutch border.
One engine was damaged causing an engine failure, directly follower by mid-air collision with the B-17G 42-37886 "Blitzing Betsy". This collision ripped open the starboard fuel tanks and caused a fire, forcing the crew to bail out.
Six of the crewmembers managed to escape safely but the others died in the crash. J.B. Blatz was fatally wounded and died later in a prisoner of war camp.
The crew members who didn't survive the crash were temporary buried at the Municipal Cemetery of Schoonebeek and after the war repatriated to other cemeteries."