A Typical Missing Air Crew Report (WW2)

Distance Message Office: Muenster-Handorf.

Post - Telegram from (Command) Headquarters Army Air Field Command 2/VI
Muenster-Handorf

To: Luftgau - Command VI - Section Ic Muenster
Dulag - Luft, Oberursel - Taunus
HQ Army Air Field Command 3/VI, Section Ic Muenster I

Subject: Shot down of enemy aircraft

Date and Time: (Aircraft was shot down) 7 October 1944 - 14.30
Place of Crash: Koerde near St. Mauritz County Muenster/Westfalia (Bauer-Heimann)
Type of Craft: Boeing - Fortress / Motortype: unknown
Contraction of Motore: unknown / Armament: unknown
F.T. - Frequencies and Equipment: unknown / Kind of Capture: Flak
Condition of Craft: destroyed 99%
Markings of Craft: A Cockade X K - Admittance o. unknown

1. Sgt.	Lloyd W. Boling	Indentif. tag # 17127210	captured
2. Sgt.	Walter J. Cochran	Indentif. tag # 13068475	captured
3. 2nd Lt.	John Brown	Indentif. tag # 0-556119	dead
4. Sgt.	Robert H. Hill	Indentif. tag # 15125602	dead
5. Sgt.	Theodore Golan	Indentif. tag # 36656501	dead
6. Sgt.	Andrew Leier	Indentif. tag # 37581323	dead
7. 2nd Lt.	James Bailey	Indentif. tag # 0-821931	dead
8. Sgt.	Herman Moers	Indentif. tag # 36012771	dead
9. 2nd Lt.	William C. Brine	Indentif. tag # 0-722916	dead
10. 1st Lt.	Howard E. Hewitt	Indentif. tag # 0-761432	dead

at 1) Prisoner transfer to Dulag Luft Oberursel
at 2) Prisoner transfer from Flying Field Loddenheide/Muenster to Dulag Luft Oberursel
at 3 to 10) FGrave location will be reported later.

Certified by
Illegible [sic]
Rank: Sgt.

Missing Air Crew Report Number 9355, National Archives, College Park, MD.