Lest We Forget -USAAF & USN

2/Lt Kenneth Carty was the pilot of a B-26 Marauder that
hit a mountain in North Wales, click on the picture for
the story on this accident, plus more pictures of Lt Carty
and Crew from the B-26.com Marauder web site.


	CAPT CHARLES E.ACKERMAN Jr - USAAF

Capt Charles Ackerman was the pilot of the 381st B-17G
43-38856 that crashed on North Barrule,Isle of Man,died
alongside 30 other men of that Bomb Group from Ridgewell
who were bound for leave in Ireland. More details on this
website,and in the books `Hell on High Ground 1 & 2 and
the book `Mighty Men of the 381st: Heroes All` by Chaplin
James Good Brown.


	CAPT JOHN N. LITTLEJOHN.Jr - USAAF

Capt John Littlejohn was the pilot of B-17G 42-97286 named
`Skipper`n`the Kids` That flew into Beinn Nuis on the Isle
of Arran,10th Dec 1944, whilst on a non-operational cross
country flight from Knettishall,Suffolk,to Prestwick,Scotland.
all the crew of 11 perished. Story in vol 1 of Hell on High
Ground and updated in appendix of vol 2.


	F/O HOWARD E. `Frenchy` LECOMPTE - USAAF

F/O Howard Edgar `Frenchy`LeCompte Jr, served as a Navigator
on B-17s with the 306th BG at Thurleigh,Bedfordshire. He had
flown 27 missions and was awaiting promotion to 2/Lt when he
lost his life in a crash on the Isle of Man on 14th April 1945
in B-17 42-37840 named `Combined Operations`.


	LT TONY A. LUCAS - USNR

On 3rd December 1943,Lt Tony Lucas of VB-103 Squadron USN
anti-submarine base at Dunkeswell,Devon, was killed along
with 9 crew, when the aircraft he was piloting a PB4Y-1
32014, flew into Steeperton Tor, Nr Okehampton,Devon, on
a routine bombing training flight.


	LT JOHN GLENNON BYRNES. - USNR

Lt John G.Byrnes, a vetran pilot with VB-111 Squadron, was
flying a local familiarization exercise with a crew of five
on 24th August 1944, when the aircraft, a PB4Y-1 hit a hill
in low cloud in Mid Wales, the Liberator impacted at Moel
Fiety, and all on board were killed. Full story in `HOHG2`
but brief details can be found on Jim Webb`s GPS Walker site,
just `click` the picture to go there.