Eyewitness statement, page 10 · 16 April 1944
U S CONFIDENTIAL equals British CONFIDENTIAL
815th BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON (H)
483rd BOMBARDMENT GROUP (H)
STATEMEN!
Flanos were over target at 1119. Flak was moderate to heavy and extremely
accurate. Plane 979, Lt. Warburton, pilot, was noticed trailing and losing
altitude after rallying to the right after bomb release. At 1135, five members
of the crew were seen to bail out by my tail gunner, Sgt. Reamer. I never saw
the plane in distress until the formation circled waiting for 979. The plane
was following the formation until a point approximately on the Yugeslavian Coast,
according to Sgt. Reamer. Bail out occured approximately 45 miles due west of
the alternate target, Nis, Yugoslavia.
/3/ Williem W. Craddock
WILLIAM W. CRADDOCK,
2nd Lt., Air Corps,
Navigator.
A
TRUIS COPY White
W. L. LINN,
Mejor, Air Corps,
Operations Officer.
U S COMPICENTIAL equals British CONFIDENTIAL
815th BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON (H)
483rd BOMBARDMENT GROUP (H)
STATEMEN!
Flanos were over target at 1119. Flak was moderate to heavy and extremely
accurate. Plane 979, Lt. Warburton, pilot, was noticed trailing and losing
altitude after rallying to the right after bomb release. At 1135, five members
of the crew were seen to bail out by my tail gunner, Sgt. Reamer. I never saw
the plane in distress until the formation circled waiting for 979. The plane
was following the formation until a point approximately on the Yugeslavian Coast,
according to Sgt. Reamer. Bail out occured approximately 45 miles due west of
the alternate target, Nis, Yugoslavia.
/3/ Williem W. Craddock
WILLIAM W. CRADDOCK,
2nd Lt., Air Corps,
Navigator.
A
TRUIS COPY White
W. L. LINN,
Mejor, Air Corps,
Operations Officer.
U S COMPICENTIAL equals British CONFIDENTIAL
National Archives, MACR 3908, page 10 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.