Posted:
By: Win Bryson
On: 01/02/2010
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Hi Gary:
Happy New Year. Here's a few suggestions towards your 'quest' - hope they help, and 'good hunting':
Cemetery Name:
- - The Website www.remember-our-heroes.nl, by Mr. Andy Swinnen of the Netherlands, has made 'WWII gravesite care' for U.S. Fallen his 'passion', and may be able to help you. He has certainly helped us.
- - Also, have you tried 'Googling' "English Military Cemetery Abbeville/Somme"? There may be a lot of un-useful info, but maybe a 'history' text with the location or address perhaps, or even the current name/status - that you could then 'GoogleEarth' to view;
- - Websites of he 'RAF Museum' (Herndon, near London) and the 'Imperial War Museum' may have "contact us" functions you could utilize to inquire, also.
A/C & Crew photos:
- - Have you searched the 401st Website's Gallery of National Archives' photos? There are some 600+. There are 2-photos of an earlier 'IN-L' in the Gallery - Its serial number is 42-31090 (photos A-27177AC & 65531AC)]. And keep in-mind, not all A/C and/or Crews were photographed. My Uncle's Crew wasn't (as far as we've found), and their (613Sq) plane 43-31081, one of the 401st's originals, wasn't either (as far as we've found).
- - Although duplicative, you could also E-mail a photo (A/C and Crew) request to the National Archives <stillpix@nara.gov> - the more you give them the more they can 'search' the more they can 'check' and 'cross-index': WWII 401st BG; 613Sq; B-17 42-31593; IN-L; 'Carrie B'; 2nd Lt F.P. Daugherty and crew; MIA Apr.20,1944.
- - I don't know if the two Crewmen that survived are living (or reachable), but that's another possibility - that they (or Kin) have photos.
Win
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