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Re: Research on B-26 "Texas Bomber"
Posted by: Rainer ()
Date: October 11, 2016 07:02PM

Hi Brian

Source: Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 1107

Martin B-26B-35-MA Marauder (41-32014) Air Transport Command

Reported missing on ferry flight from St. Mawgan, Cornwall to Casablanca, Morocco following a course on the 12th meridian on 25 October 1943. Five bodies of crew members were washed ashore in the vicinity of Peniche, Portugal. Two others remained missing.

Pilot 2Lt Everett R. McCulloch (O-672371) KIA
Co-Pilot FO Robert James Peale (T-187572) KIA
Navigator 1Lt Bernard Siegel (O-792504) MIA
Bombadier 2Lt Ray E. Pitre (O-678564) MIA
Engineer/Gunner SSgt James Willis Wheeler (35563995) KIA
Gunner SSgt George L. Graves (18180624) KIA
Gunner SSgt William M. Crawford, Jr. (31192594) KIA

Natives in Peniche, Portugal said there was heard machine gun firing in the clouds first, then what appeared to be firing from a surface vessel, perhaps a U-boat and later there was heard a violent crash when the aircraft struck the water. Position of crash is given as 9 km north of São Pedro de Moel, Portugal at 0600 GMT on 25 Oct 1943. It was also reported that a shell fragment was found in the body of SSgt Graves.

So the aircraft was lost on 25 and not 17 October 1943. However, no U-boat is known to have been in the area in question - the closest one would have been U-642 about 300 km away off Vigo, Spain.

Best regards
Rainer

Crew member of uboat.net

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Research on B-26 "Texas Bomber" Brian P 10/10/2016 09:30PM
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