An American bomber crashes in the Spaarndammer neighborhood
Flying back from a mission in Germany, a Boeing B-17-G Flying Fortress was hit by German anti-aircraft fire and crashed in the Spaarndammerstraat.
After dropping bombs over Berlin, the plane was on its way back to home base in England when it was hit by German anti-aircraft fire.[1] Near Bremen, pilot Edward Stull ordered five crew members to jump while he and co-pilot Samuel Showalter flew on. Above Schellingswoude, the plane was shot at again, after which both pilots jumped out of the plane. The plane came down on a school in Westzaanstraat and partially in front of the rectory of the Catholic church in Spaarndammerstraat.
Anne Frank writes about these events in het diary.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Informatie ontleend aan http://www.emielros.nl/bommenwerper (geraadpleegd maart 2014). Emiel Ros heeft zijn onderzoek naar deze vliegtuigcrash op 20 maart 2014 in een gesprek toegelicht.
- ^ Anne Frank, Versions A and B, 23 March 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.