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The next day they went to Paris by train and were take to the home of Mme Develay at 91 Rue d’Alésia in the south of Paris. The PoW’s were informed of the evacuation, which was on foot, at about 22:00 hrs the same night and were given 30 mins to pack and prepare everything for the March. There they were provided with warm soup and bread.
During next days, PoWs were divided up according to Compounds, and they were led to railway sidings and loaded into tightly packed carriages.
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The camp was liberated on the 29th April 1945 by units of the 14th Armoured Division from Patton’s 3rd Army.
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14.06.1944 749th Bombardment Squadron (H) B-17G 42-97579 ‘Local Mission’, 1st Lt.
Roy W. Allen
Operation: Melun Airfield (Mission #412), Germany
Date: 14th June 1944 (Wednesday)
Unit No: 749th Bombardment Squadron (H), 457th Bombardment Group (H), 1st Air Division, 8th Air Force
Type: B-17G Local Mission
Serial No: 42-97579
Code: :U
Location: Near Crisenoy, 9¾ km (6 mls) NE of Melun, France
Base: Glatton (Station #130), Huntingdonshire, England
Pilot: 1st Lt.
Roy Walter Allen O-753841 AAF Age 26. The circumstance leading to the capture of 2nd Lt. Lewis are unknown.
(1) The circumstances of 1st Lt. Allen’s evasion are unknown, however, it is believed that he was the third evader mentioned by Sgt. McManusfrom B-17G 43-31346 Shack Rabbit in hiding with him whilst at La Chapelle-Lasson and Estissac.
Update to include forced-march information (Jun 2024).
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REASON FOR LOSS:
The Local Mission took off from Glatton at 05:30 hrs on the 14th June 1944 to join a force of bombers to attack the Melun airfield in France.
On this day the airfield was bombed in mid-morning by 50 B-17 Fortresses.
Two airmen, 1st Lt. Levitt Clinton Beck Jr. O-736945, US AAF and Fg Off. Philip Derek Hemmens, 152583, RAFVRdied in the sick Barrack
Recognition:
For decades the International Red Cross (IRC) had stated that there were no military personnel in Buchenwald despite the overwhelming documentary and anecdotal evidence.
A report of his interrogation at the prison in Fresnes established his status as military personnel. He was the command pilot and had suffered a broken leg. PoW ****
Radio Operator: S/Sgt. They gave him a French identity and hid him in Jouy-le-Chatelle and in Paris. Robson from B-17G 43-31346 Shack Rabbit.
He was then taken to the Fresnes prison located to the south of Paris.
At Avenue Foch he was tortured, labelled a terrorist and denied his rights as a Prisoner of War under the terms of the Geneva Convention.
He and other airmen were then taken to Fresnes Prison located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, 7 miles south of Paris.
As the front neared them, the Germans decided to ship Roy Allen and all of the other 168 Allied airmen to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
On the 15th August 1944 the was amongst 169 Allied PoWs and hundreds of French men and women who were packed into a freight train and transported to Buchenwald concentration camp on a journey lasting five days. He reports that V-2 rockets were manufactured at Buchenwald at that time. Id No: 78357 *, PoW No 8931 ** (1)
Co Pilot: 2nd Lt.
Verne Herbert Lewis O-753800 AAF Age 28.
He saw the crematorium at Buchenwald and witnessed the killing of prisoners by injection and by drowning in vats of icewater. Ernest Leo Smith 38326562 AAF Age 26.