The 483rd Bomb Group Archive

Serviceman

Nelville Wylie

816thArmorer Gunner

Play his story on the map built from his record

Army serial number
13128943
Sources
macr-crew
Flags. known only from an OCR crew list; name may be misread

Aboard a lost aircraft

Statements, mentions and histories

Eyewitness statement, page 24 · 18 July 1944
CASUALTY no.
ME-XSU-1616
REPORT UN SNOT-DOMN AIRCRAFT
DATE AND TIME AIRCRAFT
UAS SHOT DOW#: 18 July 1944
PLACE OF CRASM: Ref: Parachuted near Kempten from a Boeing B 17 Fortress
(according to statement of prisoner)
TYPE OF AIRCRAFT:
REPORTING OFFICE: Flier's Air Base Command A (o) 14/V11 20 July 1944
CREW
AND
Wylie,
FIRST NAME:
Melville
DATE OF BIRTN:
RANK:
s/Sgt.
SEPIAL NUMBER: 13 128 943
CAPTURED: Captured
WOUNDED:
DEAD:
DISTRICUTION: CAMP:
TYPE OF
GRAVE LOCATION:
RENARKS:
Captured near Kempten on 19 July 1944 in the aftern:
By order of #
Mayola
Major and Chief officer
0-1224.AV(9)

National Archives, MACR 6953, page 24 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.

Know something about him?

If this record is wrong or missing something, a middle name, the right squadron, who is who in a photograph, what he said about a day, tell us. Nothing you send is shown without your say-so.