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B-17 'Strictly from Hunger' (42-97350) Crew Execution Memorial Cross

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Details:

On the wooded path about 200 meters from the second memorial.

Monument

A large wooden inscribed cross, about 7 feet tall.

The memorial remembers the B-17  'Strictly from Hunger' (42-97350) of the 365th Bomber Squadron, 305th Bomber Group was on a mission on July 21, 1944 flying from Station 105 (Chelveston) to Mannheim.  The plane was hit by flak on returning and the crew successfully bailed out.  Several of the crew were executed upon surrendering while other were executed while be taken away from the crash site.

1Lt Leonard A Kornblau, 2Lt Bernard E Radomski, 2Lt Charles E Woolf , S/Sgt Meredith M Mills Jr, S/Sgt Frank L Misiak were murdered after surrendering. Three flyers while being marched from Urach to Schollach were killed .Two other flyers were led from the Schollach City Hall  to woods locally know as Winterwald and shot and killed.

The perpetrators were tried in Nuremburg; several  imprisoned and one executed. 

Nuremburg War Crimes Case No: 12-779

 

The crew included:Pilot:

2nd Lt. Leonard Aaron Kornblau O-813721 AAF Age 23. Executed
Co Pilot: 2nd Lt. Bernard E. Radomski O-818745 AAF Age 23. Executed
Navigator: 2nd Lt. Charles Elbert Woolf O-710359 AAF Age 28. Executed
Bombardier: 2nd.Lt. William Edward Boyd O-706791 AAF Age 21. PoW 
Radio Operator: T/Sgt. Roger Charles Hubert Gagnon 33586853 AAF Age 21. PoW Stalag 3
Engineer/Gunner: T/Sgt. Edward Alfred Theed 34544025 AAF Age 20. PoW Stalag 4
Ball Turret: S/Sgt. Meredith McDonald Mills Jr. 14084813 AAF Age 21. Executed
Waist Gunner: S/Sgt. Irvin Elwood Hughes 33501841 AAF Age 20. PoW Stalag 4
Tail Gunner: S/Sgt. Frank L. Misiak DFC, 36365096 AAF Age 37. Executed

 

Sources of information:

https://americanarchive.iwm.org.uk

Air Crew Remembered Website

Monument Text:

The inscription on the cross is in German and reads:

Am 12.7.1944 WURDEN HIER DREI UNWEG VON HEIR ZWEI WEITERE AMERIKANISCHE FLIEGER AUF ANORDNUNG DER NS-KREISLEITUNG ERMORDET

LEONARD A. KORNBLAU

BERNARD RADOMSKI
CHARLES E. WOOLF
MEREDITH M. MILLS JR.
FRANK L. MISLAK

 

English translation:

On July 12, 1944, three American airmen were murdered here on the orders of the Nazi district leadership. Two more American airmen were murdered near here.

Commemorates:

Units:

305th Bomber Group

365th Bomber Squadron, 305th Bomber Group, Heavy

8th Air Force

Wars:

WWII

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