Distance Message Office: Muenster-Handorf.
Post – Telegram from (Command) Headquarters Army Air Field Command 2/VI
Muenster-Handorf
To: Luftgau – Command VI – Section Ic Muenster
Dulag – Luft, Oberursel – Taunus
HQ Army Air Field Command 3/VI, Section Ic Muenster I
Subject: Shot down of enemy aircraft
Date and Time: (Aircraft was shot down) 7 October 1944 – 14.30
Place of Crash: Koerde near St. Mauritz County Muenster/Westfalia (Bauer-Heimann)
Type of Craft: Boeing – Fortress / Motortype: unknown
Contraction of Motore: unknown / Armament: unknown
F.T. – Frequencies and Equipment: unknown / Kind of Capture: Flak
Condition of Craft: destroyed 99%
Markings of Craft: A Cockade X K – Admittance o. unknown
| 1. Sgt. | Lloyd W. Boling | Indentif. tag # 17127210 | captured |
| 2. Sgt. | Walter J. Cochran | Indentif. tag # 13068475 | captured |
| 3. 2nd Lt. | John Brown | Indentif. tag # 0-556119 | dead |
| 4. Sgt. | Robert H. Hill | Indentif. tag # 15125602 | dead |
| 5. Sgt. | Theodore Golan | Indentif. tag # 36656501 | dead |
| 6. Sgt. | Andrew Leier | Indentif. tag # 37581323 | dead |
| 7. 2nd Lt. | James Bailey | Indentif. tag # 0-821931 | dead |
| 8. Sgt. | Herman Moers | Indentif. tag # 36012771 | dead |
| 9. 2nd Lt. | William C. Brine | Indentif. tag # 0-722916 | dead |
| 10. 1st Lt. | Howard E. Hewitt | Indentif. tag # 0-761432 | dead |
at 1) Prisoner transfer to Dulag Luft Oberursel
at 2) Prisoner transfer from Flying Field Loddenheide/Muenster to Dulag Luft Oberursel
at 3 to 10) FGrave location will be reported later.
Certified by
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Rank: Sgt.
Missing Air Crew Report Number 9355, National Archives, College Park, MD.