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About B-24 of 15th AF, 450th BG, 721st BS, serial: 42-51153 Landed at Dübendorf
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Sirs:
On your web site at url http://www.airwarweb.net/interned_usaaf.php you have areas of incomplete data. I can provide one small piece of information to make your data more complete.
My father-in-law was Maj Richard E. Turk, USAF Ret. (Lt. Richard E. Turk in 1945) and was a USAAF B-24 pilot. The second time he was shot down he managed to get his B-24 to Switzerland. He was a member of a crew of ten (10) whose plane he landed at Dübendorf on 8 April 1945. That would be the third from the last entry on your list of interned (or crashed) in Switzerland WW II USAAF aircraft at the above url.
Flying out of Manduria, Italy, he was with the 721st BS, 450th BG, 15th AF. On a mission to bomb a railroad bridge at Vipiteno, Italy, they received very heavy flak, lost two engines (on the same side of the plane), the hydraulic system was gone, the right stabilizer shot off, and they lost altitude from 30,000' to 5,000' in the midst of the Alps before making a wheels up landing at Dübendorf under "escort" of two Swiss Me-109s. He and his crew were interned at Adelboden, Switzerland. The aircraft was the "Strange Cargo ?" with the serial number 42-51153.
I hope this information is of interest and use to you. Thank you for maintaining an excellent and informative site.
See also: http://www.450thbg.com/real/crews/turk.shtml
I have a little more information if you are interested.
Philip Tyler, Lt Col
USAFR, Ret.
Further Reading on the Internet: Richard Turk Crew
