Name: Billy J Murray
First Name(s): Billy J Murray
Last Name: Williams
Place of birth: Texas, Hidalgo Cnty, Hidalgo
Rank: S/Sgt Waist Gunner
ASN: 18162953
Company: 325th Bomb Sqdrn
Unit: 92nd Bomb Grp (H) 8th USAAF
Reported as: POW ► DNB
Date of incident: 08-03-1945
Place of incident: See Konstanz (Ch)
Read history of 92nd Bombardment Group (Heavy)
note: S/Sgt Billy J Murray was taken POW after he and his crewmembers crashed with their plane, (check MACR 7689) and imprisoned in Germany.
To remove all the POW’s out of Germany as soon as possible, there were nonstop flights continuing night and day, and regarded as an emergency.
On 18 May 1945 the flight was British V9169 detailed to fly from Luneburg, Germany and transport British former POW’s to Brussels, Belgium.
On this particular flight, there was not enough of the British POW’s available for flight, so American POW’s were boarded.
There were twelve passengers and six RAF VR crew members on board of the Lockheed Hudson AE505-MA-L.
Upon landing at Evere airfield near Brussels, Belgium, the airplane bounced badly and the pilot attempted re-take off, engines gunned, climbed steeply, felled back in a tail slide, stalled, nosedived to the ground, and bursted into flames upon impact.
There were no survivors.
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