41-6216

media-20413.jpeg UPL 20413 Lt. Wayne J O’Connor, 63rd Fighter Squadron. P-47C 41-6216 UN-O. No name on a/c but imposing artwork of the Big Bad Wolf. The dog’s name was “Slipstream”.
Sustained an engine failure 19-Aug-43. 2nd Lt Hodges stayed with the aircraft and ditched it in the North Sea off the Dutch coast at Oosterschelde and was rescued by a German patrol boat. POW.

Object Number - UPL 20413 - Lt. Wayne J O’Connor, 63rd Fighter Squadron. P-47C 41-6216 UN-O. No name on a/c but imposing artwork of the Big Bad Wolf. The dog’s name was...

P-47C-2-RE 41-6216 was assigned to the 56FG/63FS at Halesworth, UK. The aircraft was being flown by 2LT Glenn L. Hodges on 19-Aug-43 on a mission to provide fighter cover for the B-17 formation withdrawing from an attack on the German airfield at Gilze-Rijen, Holland. At 27,000 feet the aircraft sustained an engine failure. 2LT Hodges stated with the aircraft and ditched it in the North Sea off the Dutch coast at Oosterschelde and was rescued by a German patrol boat and held as a Prisoner of War.

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Lee Cunningham 24-May-2015. Added new AIRCRAFT entry based on "Losses of the 8th & 9th AIr Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; and Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 297.

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