UPL 13471

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Remains of American B-24 ~ #42-7554 “Tail End Charlie” ~ crashed into the cemetery in Mirns, Netherlands 22 DEC 1943 The story behind this ‘tea spoon holder’ is remarkable. In 2011 Alexander Tuinhout & Douwe Drijver of the Stichting Missing Airmen Memorial Foundation (S.M.A.M.F.) traveled to New Zealand. They visited some Dutch Frisian emigrants who had moved to New Zealand in the 1950s. In New Zealand, 20.000 km. (12, 430 miles) from their home (the Netherlands/Holland), they visited an elderly lady from Friesland. She told them that she came from the village of Mirns. She was asked her if she remembered the crash of an American bomber in her childhood and she said yes she did. She went into another room and took this little spoon-holder out of a closet. She told them that it is made from the aluminum of the American B-24 that crashed into the cemetery in Mirns.

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Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Tail End Charlie
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 702nd Bomb Squadron

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A. L. DESTRO II