Gay Arthur Coles

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Arthur Coles Gay is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

Four B17 Crashes Monument -Yonne

Name:

Arthur Coles Gay

Rank:

Technical Sergeant

Serial Number:

31093913

Unit:

560th Bomber Squadron, 388th Bomber Group

Date of Death:

1974-08-28

State:

Massachusetts

Cemetery:

Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA

Plot:

Section 56

Row:

Grave:

Site 411A

Decoration:

Comments:

Engineer of the B-17 Bomber Slightly Dangerous, taken off from Knettingshall on a mission to Stuttgart, was hit by anti-aircraft fire and attacked by six fighters, shooting four of them down. It crashed at Chapelle-Champigny, damaging a house. The lady-owner was killed. Two members, after successful parachute jumps, got back to England, two others were taken prisoners by the Germans but five others were killed in the crash. Gay was taken prisoner at Stalag 17B in Braunau Gneikendorf.