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Updated on Apr 28, 14
Created on Apr 27, 14
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Tim Fox's List: Anker Poulsen
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1/Lt.Paul Fox pilot
2/Lt.Anker F.Poulsen co-pilot
2/Lt.Robert Feinberg bomb
S/Sgt.Lee H.Hecht eng
T/Sgt.Frank H.Callahan Jr radio
S/Sgt.William J.Jamison rwg
S/Sgt.David H.Slade lwg
S/Sgt.Lester R.Higley tg of Duke Center,McKean County PA Mem.Roll
S/Sgt.Raymond F.Buchholz ng of Wisconsin
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The record concerning your husband shows that he was a crew member aboard a Liberator bomber which participated in an aerial combat mission to Wesel, Germany, on 24 March 1945. This plane was seen to pull up to a steep climb with the bomb bay on fire, flip over on its back and crash at a point about two miles northeast of Wesel. No parachutes were seen leaving the bomber. Your husband has not since been seen or heard from.
The date of your husband's death has been set as 25 March, 1945, the day following the expiration of twelve months absence.
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As usual, however, these results were not achieved without a price; fourteen Liberators were lost, including three from the 491st. "I was flying next to Brown (1st Lt. James W. Brown) and noticed his #3 engine was on fire. I called him and told him about the fire. Brown answered 'Roger' and seemed completely cool as if he had the situation under control. Then a second or two later his ship (42-50749) blew up with a sickening explosion. He wasn't more than 50 feet off the ground at the time." (Kohl) Lt. Paul Fox's plane (44-40162) was seen to pull up into a steep climb with its bomb bay on fire. The pilot was evidently trying to reach a safe bail out altitude, but the plane went out of control, rolled over on its back and crashed hopelessly in an ugly burst of black smoke and orange flame. First Lt. Andy T. Wilson reported his GREEN HORNET (44-40286) was severely damaged by ground fire and he was going to crashland approximately ten miles west of the Rhine. No one escaped from any of the three crashes.
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The wreckage of a B-24 Liberator in a German field. Of 240 low-flying Liberators that dropped supplies to Allied troops in the Rhine crossing operation called VARSITY PLUNDER, fifteen were lost and 104 damaged.
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