Name: Ernest H Nevins
First Name(s): Ernest H
Last Name: Nevins
Place of birth: Missouri,
Rank: Pvt
ASN: 37728164
Company: B Troop
Unit: 87th Cavlry Recon Sqdrn 7th AD
Reported as: MIA ► POW ► DNB
Date of incident: 18-09-1944
Place of incident: Arry-Vittonville area (F)
note: Pvt Ernest H Nevins was taken POW and imprisoned in Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 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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