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Back, left to right: Navigator Lt. James Shilliday, Pilot Lt. Roy Mohr, Co-pilot 2nd Lt. Elmer Schultz, Bombardier Lt. Roland Marean.
Front, left to right: T/Sgt Hartzel Jones, S/Sgt Robert Wallin, S/Sgt Robert Ammarell,
S/Sgt Roderic Beckhman, T/Sgt Halleck H. Hasson, S/Sgt Bernard Beck.
Photo taken in Summer 1943. Sgt. Hasson is contributor's uncle.
Keith Kuttesch (Nephew of T/Sgt Halleck H. Hasson), Tue Nov 30 2004: On 6th Sept 1943, this crew was shot down over France. Three men were captured, S/Sgt Robert Wallin, and S/Sgt Roderic Beckham were sent to Luft-Stalag 17-B, Krems, Austria. S/Sgt Robert Ammarell was repatriated in a Prisoner of War exchange due to his serious battle wounds. T/Sgt Hal Hasson, Lt. Tim Marean, and Lt. James Shilliday escaped with the help of the French Resistance and returned to England. Lt Roy Mohr, Lt Elmer Schulz, T/Sgt Hartzell Jones, and S/Sgt Bernard Becker were never seen or heard from again. Out of 21 B-17's dispatched from Knettishall Air Base, Station #136, only 10 Aircraft returned. |
