Raerd

The crew was returning to his base in England following a bombing mission over Bremen. While cruising over The Netherlands, the aircraft was shot down by the pilot of a German fighter and crashed in a field located near Raerd. All ten crew members were killed.
Crew (96th BG):
T/Sgt Robert Callender Andrews,
S/Sgt Joseph Regis Costlow,
S/Sgt Wallace Howell Duke,
2nd Lt Coy Mitchell Freeman,
1st Lt Maynard Carl Freemole,
S/Sgt Edwin Theodore Kalinka,
2nd Lt Robert Hale Locke,
2nd Lt John Lee McIntyre,
S/Sgt Kenneth Wayne Schmalian,
T/Sgt Robert Edward Smith.

The crew was returning to his base in England following a bombing mission over Bremen. While cruising over The Netherlands, the aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in a field located between the villages of Poppenwier and Raerd. All ten crew members were killed. The plane may have collided with another B-17.
Crew (96th BG):
S/Sgt John Joseph Bavosa,
2nd Lt Albert Joseph Csizmadia,
S/Sgt Frank Robert Cunningham,
S/Sgt Harmon Edgar Guise,
T/Sgt Earl Victor Hawkes,
S/Sgt Howard Ozer Inscoe Jr.,
2nd Lt Howard Dunklin Reid Jr.,
T/Sgt Marvin Lloyd Sassen,
1st Lt Edwin Robert Smith,
2nd Lt Robert Stewart Trusler.