Crash site B-25 A/C No. 42-32466 Ellis A Ruppelt
Thu May 16, 2013 11:19 am
We find in Pratola Serra the place where 27 august 1943 crashed B-25 A/C No. 42-32466 (MACR-638). The crew:
Ruppelt, Ellis A., 2Lt - MIA, RTD
DeLouche, Remi T., Jr., 2Lt - POW, RMC
Snyder, Nathan B., S/Sgt - MIA, POW, DNB
Grimm, James R., S/Sgt - MIA, RMC
Joseph, Edward Thomas, Sgt - POW, RMC
Some info about these men? I just find:
Interrogation Report: Ruppelt, Ellis A., 2Lt, pilot, 379th BS
Base Intelligence Office
MOODY FIELD, GEORGIA
Date ___19 October 1945___
REPORT OF INTERROGATION OF FORMER POW FOR CASUALTY INFORMATION
Casualty: NATHAN B. SNYDER, S/Sgt, bombardier
Circumstances of loss of aircraft: While on a bombing mission, German fighter aircraft attacked and set both engines and left wing of our B-25 aircraft afire. All five of us crew members escaped by parachute from our burning aircraft over Benevento, Italy.
Hearsay Information: An Italian priest, John Giordano, living at Pratola Serra (Province of Avellino), Italy, wrote me a letter stating that S/Sgt NATHAN B. SNYDER had been shot and killed by the Germans.
Sgt. Grimm, radio operator, and 2nd Lt. R.T. DeLouche, co-pilot, have returned to the United States. Neither one of those crew members has information concerning S/Sgt NATHAN B. SNYDER or Edward Josephs, gunner, the remaining member of our crew.
(S) ELLIS A. RUPPELT, 0-732580
1st Lt., Air Corps, Moody Field, Georgia
Some of fragments we find
Ruppelt, Ellis A., 2Lt - MIA, RTD
DeLouche, Remi T., Jr., 2Lt - POW, RMC
Snyder, Nathan B., S/Sgt - MIA, POW, DNB
Grimm, James R., S/Sgt - MIA, RMC
Joseph, Edward Thomas, Sgt - POW, RMC
Some info about these men? I just find:
Interrogation Report: Ruppelt, Ellis A., 2Lt, pilot, 379th BS
Base Intelligence Office
MOODY FIELD, GEORGIA
Date ___19 October 1945___
REPORT OF INTERROGATION OF FORMER POW FOR CASUALTY INFORMATION
Casualty: NATHAN B. SNYDER, S/Sgt, bombardier
Circumstances of loss of aircraft: While on a bombing mission, German fighter aircraft attacked and set both engines and left wing of our B-25 aircraft afire. All five of us crew members escaped by parachute from our burning aircraft over Benevento, Italy.
Hearsay Information: An Italian priest, John Giordano, living at Pratola Serra (Province of Avellino), Italy, wrote me a letter stating that S/Sgt NATHAN B. SNYDER had been shot and killed by the Germans.
Sgt. Grimm, radio operator, and 2nd Lt. R.T. DeLouche, co-pilot, have returned to the United States. Neither one of those crew members has information concerning S/Sgt NATHAN B. SNYDER or Edward Josephs, gunner, the remaining member of our crew.
(S) ELLIS A. RUPPELT, 0-732580
1st Lt., Air Corps, Moody Field, Georgia
Some of fragments we find