Lowell Isaac Creason / 37138269
3300 West Coleman Road, Kansas City, Missouri and Paurer Lake Road, Excelsior Springs, Missouri, USA
Born August 3, 1919 / † February 5, 1986 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
S / Sgt, USAF 322 Bomber Group 449 Bomber Squadron radio operator
Landed 2km from Lederzeele, Pas-de-Calais, France. Martin B-26B-30-MA Marauder Serial No.: 41-31948 Registration / Name: PN / K, shot by the Flak January 14, 1944 during a mission on V weapons sites in the St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. Crushed south of Gravelines, Nord, France. Duration: 3 months. happened in Spain.
Additional information:
The crew report on the loss of this device loss: MACR 1748. Escape E & E 616, available online report.
The Marauder off of St. Andrews to 09:30. One minute after the bomb run, the device is achieved by flak. The intercom is inoperative and the driver rang the alarm bell.
The pilot, 1st Lt. Samuel A. Walker Jr. was captured, as well as the co-pilot 2nd Lt. James D. Pearson, the dorsal gunner T / Sgt John J. Perhart and rear gunner S / Sgt Edward G. Riegelhuth.
Besides Lowell Creason, two other men succeeded in escaping: Browser / bomber Paul Wolff and ventral gunner S / Sgt William J. Brogle, which usually flew with another crew (it will remain hidden in the Pas-de-Calais until the liberation in September 1944 - E & E 1567).
Lowell Creason, which is the 28th mission jumps to 4200 m via the bomb bay behind Wolff and Walker. The co-pilot Pearson is standing behind him when he jumps. Creason seriously injured in the ear opening his parachute and loses his escape kit in the fall. He landed in a plowed field and then he takes off his parachute, three young French flock around him, one of them puts the parachute in a bag while the other two outweigh the rest of the equipment and lead him to a hiding place in the bushes, where he remained throughout the afternoon.
They bring him food and stealthily at night, one of his helpers leads him in and after cycling leads to a hut where he finds Lederzeele teammate Paul Wolff and Wayne Greer and Walter Satterfield , two members of the crew of B26 No. 42-31880 its same squadron, fell a few kilometers away.
Emile DEGRAEVE, farmer and local representative of the resistance group, arrived at the hut, bringing them food. DEGRAEVE will then come a nun who heal the wound in the ear of Creason. The next evening, the four men in DEGRAEVE restore and are conducted in another house in the village see Sgt Daniel Mertes , also of 41-31880, whose legs are paralyzed.
The day before dawn, the five escapees are guided to a large farm 2 km Lederzeele in Vasseur, where they remain two days. A new then reaches them that Mr. and Mrs. DEGRAEVE and their two daughters were arrested shortly after the start of the airmen they had hosted. Ms. DEGRAEVE and her two daughters were freed after a week, but Emile DEGRAEVE was still detained when Creason left the area.
It then leads the five airmen at a farm where a Belgian, his wife Mary and Cyril's brother lived it (Mertes cites the "MILLS VAN?"). Vasseur and the owner of the firm contributed to the costs involved in hosting there escapees airmen. 8 or 9 February, Sylvia (23 years, 160cm, blonde, blue eyes, knowing very little English) and two other young women arriving from Paris and take them Creason, Satterfield and Wolff by truck to Saint-Omer.
We find traces of Lowell Creason in the files of French officers Comet that help PLEHIERS including Gaston and his wife Hattie CAGNARD 4th Street Victorien Sardou in Saint-Omer, which harbor. The same sources indicate that Creason and Paul Wolff then went through PLEHIERS two Madeleine DUMONT guides who take them to Paris in February 1944: Marie-Andrée COLUMBUS "Yvette" (living in Paris 5 Rue Champfleury to seventh with his stepmother Madeleine DUMONT) and Louise Lenoir (single designer at 36 Rue Erard Paris XII). In its report of activities, Gaston PLEHIERS information Creason as "Greason Larvoll" and mentions four other airmen.
The report indicates that Creason of Saint-Omer, the group took the train to Arras then another to Paris. At this point, Creason spends a night in the apartment of a priest and the next day is led by Sylvia first a photographer, then Madame OF VILLATTE where he remained seven days, four sick in bed.
Sylvia comes looking for the lead to his own apartment in the eastern part of the capital. There lodge for five days before Sylvia guide to the apartment of the two sisters "Malaprade" (= Genevieve and Jacqueline Maleprade) near the Bois de Boulogne (file Françoise BOURCART accurate it is at 9 Street Civry Paris XVI). They are both schoolteachers (the Institute Sevigne, according BOURCART) and they host Creason for nearly a month stay during which several members of the organization will see, but Sylvia. In late February, a brunette, 1m55, brown eyes, just inform what the head of the organization and most of the members of the network were arrested. Thereafter, Creason learns that the brunette was also apprehended, and apparently Sylvia.
Miss Maleprade then immediately contacts with some friends Creason which contains the names in the report, noting that it is not sure of the spelling of their names. So he quotes Francis "GROVE", his wife "Louise", their two children, Andrew and Jacqueline 9 years 13 years. It states that BOSQUET leading a major printing and friends in Stuart's Dress Shop in Remley House, near Piccadilly, London. The activities Francis BOUCHY report (the "Grove" of Creason), printer at 147 Boulevard Saint-Michel, tells us that Françoise BOURCART, guardian of unmarried children, housed Creason a night with her at 70 Rue Assas, Parix seventh. She had been looking at the sisters with Ms. Maleprade BOUCHY (Suzanne DELRIEUX). In his paper, Creason says he saw workers working on the construction of a tunnel at the corner of Rue d'Assas and Rue Guynemer.
About 8 or 9 March, then leads Creason in BOUCHY near the Luxembourg Gardens, and later learned that he had hardly left the apartment of Maleprade of the Gestapo had burst there. The two sisters were arrested but quickly released after a fruitless interrogation. As the report states Creason he stayed with Paul Wolff until March 9, but without the name or evoke from his statement on February 8-9, one might think that Wolff has followed the same path until at that time (?)
BOUCHY provides new clothes and false papers Creason and March 23, arrives home a woman named "AUBERY" 1m75, about 35/40 years old, brunette, thin, bespectacled, the head of another network. She takes Creason at the apartment of Mrs. Jules Henri, near the Place de la Concorde, where she asks Creason to verify the identity of Pederson who is there. This is the S / Sgt Arnold O. Pederson, dorsal gunner of B-17 No. 42-37946 of the 452 Bomb Group shot 8 February 1944 which Pederson is the only member of the crew managed to escape. Note that in the report Pederson, E & E 615, the date is questioned by the AUBERY Creason is 25 and not 23 March ...
Creason's two days at Mrs. Jules Henri, described by Pederson as big, brunette, married to a French diplomat in the U.S. and then being a student at the University of Paris mom. At the end of his stay with Mrs. Henri, a young girl then picks Creason to drive in another part of the city and give it to a young man comes up Creason coffee. Pederson said that the date is March 28 and the girl in question is named PAULETTE, whose sister, her husband and herself had hosted Pederson and another escaped, T / Sgt Archie R. Barlow (only escaped from the B-24 No. 42-7635 of 44 Bomber Group shot Jan. 21, 1944 - discharged by Marie-Odile network to the Pyrenees and Spell April / May 1944 - E & E 687)). Pederson says PAULETTE sister and daughter of the owner of another cafe where working PAULETTE, Pederson bring this other cafe, where he sees and meets Creason Lt Lathrop (see below), the Fl / Lt David Goldberg (RCAF Spitfire pilot shot MJ356 March 8, 1944 - discharged to the Pyrenees in April 1944 by the network Françoise Marie-Louise DISSARD - GSP 3319/1910) and the S / L Robert Gordon Crosby (RCAF Typhoon JP446 shot dead January 3, 1944 - discharged to the Pyrenees in April 1944 by the network Françoise Marie-Louise DISSARD - GSP 3319/1908).
The report states Creason he and the other four take a train to Toulouse and that from that moment the story of his escape is the same as that of Lathrop, Pederson also noted that in its report. Creason its own report concludes by stating that the organization is in dire need of civilian clothes and especially shoes to fit the escapees.
Lt. Neil H. Lathrop is the pilot of B-17 No. 42-30386 of the 305 Bomb Group shot on 7 January 1944. Reading his escape ratio (E & E 613) tells us that the coffee date is the headquarters of the network "Françoise" Marie-Louise DISSARD mentioned above. We take what he tells from the start of the five escapees to Toulouse their guide is a young student at the University of Toulouse, wearing sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his head. Arrived in Toulouse, they take a railcar to Montesquieu, then a bus to St-Girons where they stay eight days in a barn at the foot of the Pyrenees. On the seventh day, they were joined by John Watson Smith (that Lathrop had met before, a British citizen, born in South Africa and wanted by the Gestapo for helping another airman escaped).
Lathrop did not specify how they were guided through the Pyrenees, but we find some details in the report of 2nd Lt. Michael L. Smith (pilot of the P-47 No. 42-76337 of the 366th Fighter Group on 17 March 1944 - E & E 614).
Smith reports that arrived on a farm in the hillside, he met Lathrop, Pederson, Creason, Goldberg, Crosby and Fl / Lt Watkins (P / Off William E. Watkins, driver Typhhon JR309 shot February 13, 1944 - GSP 3319/1909). These men set off on the night of April 7th through the Pyrenees. After 6 hours of walking, they meet another group, the guide promises to go find one of the men that the group Creason had to abandon apparently started in a home due to injury.
On April 8, they reach the top of a steep mountain and down the other side, a strong storm complicates their advance. Especially, says Smith, as one of Canada's practically walked barefoot and Goldberg and American bomber (?) Were in serious trouble. [In his report, Creason noted that during the first night in the Pyrenees, Lathrop almost brought one of two Canadian on his back to cross the mountain. He added that at some point, David Goldberg slipped on the ice on a rock and Lt. Smith was able to grab it and avoid falling into the abyss.]
The men took refuge in a valley where they spend the night, during which their guide abandoned. Therefore, the group of Smith and Creason separates from the other group-guided apparently by a French and a Belgian, this second group of seven escapees then returning to St Girons and Toulouse with these guides. Creason, Smith and peers while continuing to grow, with a guide "organization" making the journey with them, apparently new to the network, so as to make the recognition.
The group Creason back the side of the mountain and through the box, reached the Pallaresa. Their guide confirms them while they are both in Spain and leads beyond Port Salau where they spend the night of April 9 in the home of a Spanish friend of the guide. The next day, the group walks along the river and reaches Esterri Àneu where their guide presents to his younger brother who works with them until Escaló.
The Escapist reports do not provide the identity of the guides, but the name Creason appears in a list of seven airmen found in papers SOLDEVILLA Jaume and his wife Generosa (nee CORTINA), working in Catalonia for the Belgian network Jean and the local network François . It states Creason Jaume guided through the Pyrenees and took him to Spain.
Escaped staying there with another brother of the guide, while their initial guide travels to Barcelona to contact the British Consulate. On April 22, a truck in front of which sits a Spanish artillery captain, comes to seek to lead in Barcelona where they arrived on 23. The consul gives 200 pesetas each escaped, as well as civilian clothes and is accommodated in various houses and hotels in the city.
Creason confirmed in his report that arrives in Spain on April 10, 1944, reached Gibraltar 28 via Madrid, where he is the U.S. Consulate with Lathrop, Pederson and Lt. Michael L. Smith and he left Gibraltar by air on May 4 to arrive the next day in Bristol, England. He is interviewed on the same day in London by the IS 9.
Lowell Creason lies at Crown Hill Cemetery in Excelsior Springs, Missouri
3300 West Coleman Road, Kansas City, Missouri and Paurer Lake Road, Excelsior Springs, Missouri, USA
Born August 3, 1919 / † February 5, 1986 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
S / Sgt, USAF 322 Bomber Group 449 Bomber Squadron radio operator
Landed 2km from Lederzeele, Pas-de-Calais, France. Martin B-26B-30-MA Marauder Serial No.: 41-31948 Registration / Name: PN / K, shot by the Flak January 14, 1944 during a mission on V weapons sites in the St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. Crushed south of Gravelines, Nord, France. Duration: 3 months. happened in Spain.
Additional information:
The crew report on the loss of this device loss: MACR 1748. Escape E & E 616, available online report.
The Marauder off of St. Andrews to 09:30. One minute after the bomb run, the device is achieved by flak. The intercom is inoperative and the driver rang the alarm bell.
The pilot, 1st Lt. Samuel A. Walker Jr. was captured, as well as the co-pilot 2nd Lt. James D. Pearson, the dorsal gunner T / Sgt John J. Perhart and rear gunner S / Sgt Edward G. Riegelhuth.
Besides Lowell Creason, two other men succeeded in escaping: Browser / bomber Paul Wolff and ventral gunner S / Sgt William J. Brogle, which usually flew with another crew (it will remain hidden in the Pas-de-Calais until the liberation in September 1944 - E & E 1567).
Lowell Creason, which is the 28th mission jumps to 4200 m via the bomb bay behind Wolff and Walker. The co-pilot Pearson is standing behind him when he jumps. Creason seriously injured in the ear opening his parachute and loses his escape kit in the fall. He landed in a plowed field and then he takes off his parachute, three young French flock around him, one of them puts the parachute in a bag while the other two outweigh the rest of the equipment and lead him to a hiding place in the bushes, where he remained throughout the afternoon.
They bring him food and stealthily at night, one of his helpers leads him in and after cycling leads to a hut where he finds Lederzeele teammate Paul Wolff and Wayne Greer and Walter Satterfield , two members of the crew of B26 No. 42-31880 its same squadron, fell a few kilometers away.
Emile DEGRAEVE, farmer and local representative of the resistance group, arrived at the hut, bringing them food. DEGRAEVE will then come a nun who heal the wound in the ear of Creason. The next evening, the four men in DEGRAEVE restore and are conducted in another house in the village see Sgt Daniel Mertes , also of 41-31880, whose legs are paralyzed.
The day before dawn, the five escapees are guided to a large farm 2 km Lederzeele in Vasseur, where they remain two days. A new then reaches them that Mr. and Mrs. DEGRAEVE and their two daughters were arrested shortly after the start of the airmen they had hosted. Ms. DEGRAEVE and her two daughters were freed after a week, but Emile DEGRAEVE was still detained when Creason left the area.
It then leads the five airmen at a farm where a Belgian, his wife Mary and Cyril's brother lived it (Mertes cites the "MILLS VAN?"). Vasseur and the owner of the firm contributed to the costs involved in hosting there escapees airmen. 8 or 9 February, Sylvia (23 years, 160cm, blonde, blue eyes, knowing very little English) and two other young women arriving from Paris and take them Creason, Satterfield and Wolff by truck to Saint-Omer.
We find traces of Lowell Creason in the files of French officers Comet that help PLEHIERS including Gaston and his wife Hattie CAGNARD 4th Street Victorien Sardou in Saint-Omer, which harbor. The same sources indicate that Creason and Paul Wolff then went through PLEHIERS two Madeleine DUMONT guides who take them to Paris in February 1944: Marie-Andrée COLUMBUS "Yvette" (living in Paris 5 Rue Champfleury to seventh with his stepmother Madeleine DUMONT) and Louise Lenoir (single designer at 36 Rue Erard Paris XII). In its report of activities, Gaston PLEHIERS information Creason as "Greason Larvoll" and mentions four other airmen.
The report indicates that Creason of Saint-Omer, the group took the train to Arras then another to Paris. At this point, Creason spends a night in the apartment of a priest and the next day is led by Sylvia first a photographer, then Madame OF VILLATTE where he remained seven days, four sick in bed.
Sylvia comes looking for the lead to his own apartment in the eastern part of the capital. There lodge for five days before Sylvia guide to the apartment of the two sisters "Malaprade" (= Genevieve and Jacqueline Maleprade) near the Bois de Boulogne (file Françoise BOURCART accurate it is at 9 Street Civry Paris XVI). They are both schoolteachers (the Institute Sevigne, according BOURCART) and they host Creason for nearly a month stay during which several members of the organization will see, but Sylvia. In late February, a brunette, 1m55, brown eyes, just inform what the head of the organization and most of the members of the network were arrested. Thereafter, Creason learns that the brunette was also apprehended, and apparently Sylvia.
Miss Maleprade then immediately contacts with some friends Creason which contains the names in the report, noting that it is not sure of the spelling of their names. So he quotes Francis "GROVE", his wife "Louise", their two children, Andrew and Jacqueline 9 years 13 years. It states that BOSQUET leading a major printing and friends in Stuart's Dress Shop in Remley House, near Piccadilly, London. The activities Francis BOUCHY report (the "Grove" of Creason), printer at 147 Boulevard Saint-Michel, tells us that Françoise BOURCART, guardian of unmarried children, housed Creason a night with her at 70 Rue Assas, Parix seventh. She had been looking at the sisters with Ms. Maleprade BOUCHY (Suzanne DELRIEUX). In his paper, Creason says he saw workers working on the construction of a tunnel at the corner of Rue d'Assas and Rue Guynemer.
About 8 or 9 March, then leads Creason in BOUCHY near the Luxembourg Gardens, and later learned that he had hardly left the apartment of Maleprade of the Gestapo had burst there. The two sisters were arrested but quickly released after a fruitless interrogation. As the report states Creason he stayed with Paul Wolff until March 9, but without the name or evoke from his statement on February 8-9, one might think that Wolff has followed the same path until at that time (?)
BOUCHY provides new clothes and false papers Creason and March 23, arrives home a woman named "AUBERY" 1m75, about 35/40 years old, brunette, thin, bespectacled, the head of another network. She takes Creason at the apartment of Mrs. Jules Henri, near the Place de la Concorde, where she asks Creason to verify the identity of Pederson who is there. This is the S / Sgt Arnold O. Pederson, dorsal gunner of B-17 No. 42-37946 of the 452 Bomb Group shot 8 February 1944 which Pederson is the only member of the crew managed to escape. Note that in the report Pederson, E & E 615, the date is questioned by the AUBERY Creason is 25 and not 23 March ...
Creason's two days at Mrs. Jules Henri, described by Pederson as big, brunette, married to a French diplomat in the U.S. and then being a student at the University of Paris mom. At the end of his stay with Mrs. Henri, a young girl then picks Creason to drive in another part of the city and give it to a young man comes up Creason coffee. Pederson said that the date is March 28 and the girl in question is named PAULETTE, whose sister, her husband and herself had hosted Pederson and another escaped, T / Sgt Archie R. Barlow (only escaped from the B-24 No. 42-7635 of 44 Bomber Group shot Jan. 21, 1944 - discharged by Marie-Odile network to the Pyrenees and Spell April / May 1944 - E & E 687)). Pederson says PAULETTE sister and daughter of the owner of another cafe where working PAULETTE, Pederson bring this other cafe, where he sees and meets Creason Lt Lathrop (see below), the Fl / Lt David Goldberg (RCAF Spitfire pilot shot MJ356 March 8, 1944 - discharged to the Pyrenees in April 1944 by the network Françoise Marie-Louise DISSARD - GSP 3319/1910) and the S / L Robert Gordon Crosby (RCAF Typhoon JP446 shot dead January 3, 1944 - discharged to the Pyrenees in April 1944 by the network Françoise Marie-Louise DISSARD - GSP 3319/1908).
The report states Creason he and the other four take a train to Toulouse and that from that moment the story of his escape is the same as that of Lathrop, Pederson also noted that in its report. Creason its own report concludes by stating that the organization is in dire need of civilian clothes and especially shoes to fit the escapees.
Lt. Neil H. Lathrop is the pilot of B-17 No. 42-30386 of the 305 Bomb Group shot on 7 January 1944. Reading his escape ratio (E & E 613) tells us that the coffee date is the headquarters of the network "Françoise" Marie-Louise DISSARD mentioned above. We take what he tells from the start of the five escapees to Toulouse their guide is a young student at the University of Toulouse, wearing sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his head. Arrived in Toulouse, they take a railcar to Montesquieu, then a bus to St-Girons where they stay eight days in a barn at the foot of the Pyrenees. On the seventh day, they were joined by John Watson Smith (that Lathrop had met before, a British citizen, born in South Africa and wanted by the Gestapo for helping another airman escaped).
Lathrop did not specify how they were guided through the Pyrenees, but we find some details in the report of 2nd Lt. Michael L. Smith (pilot of the P-47 No. 42-76337 of the 366th Fighter Group on 17 March 1944 - E & E 614).
Smith reports that arrived on a farm in the hillside, he met Lathrop, Pederson, Creason, Goldberg, Crosby and Fl / Lt Watkins (P / Off William E. Watkins, driver Typhhon JR309 shot February 13, 1944 - GSP 3319/1909). These men set off on the night of April 7th through the Pyrenees. After 6 hours of walking, they meet another group, the guide promises to go find one of the men that the group Creason had to abandon apparently started in a home due to injury.
On April 8, they reach the top of a steep mountain and down the other side, a strong storm complicates their advance. Especially, says Smith, as one of Canada's practically walked barefoot and Goldberg and American bomber (?) Were in serious trouble. [In his report, Creason noted that during the first night in the Pyrenees, Lathrop almost brought one of two Canadian on his back to cross the mountain. He added that at some point, David Goldberg slipped on the ice on a rock and Lt. Smith was able to grab it and avoid falling into the abyss.]
The men took refuge in a valley where they spend the night, during which their guide abandoned. Therefore, the group of Smith and Creason separates from the other group-guided apparently by a French and a Belgian, this second group of seven escapees then returning to St Girons and Toulouse with these guides. Creason, Smith and peers while continuing to grow, with a guide "organization" making the journey with them, apparently new to the network, so as to make the recognition.
The group Creason back the side of the mountain and through the box, reached the Pallaresa. Their guide confirms them while they are both in Spain and leads beyond Port Salau where they spend the night of April 9 in the home of a Spanish friend of the guide. The next day, the group walks along the river and reaches Esterri Àneu where their guide presents to his younger brother who works with them until Escaló.
The Escapist reports do not provide the identity of the guides, but the name Creason appears in a list of seven airmen found in papers SOLDEVILLA Jaume and his wife Generosa (nee CORTINA), working in Catalonia for the Belgian network Jean and the local network François . It states Creason Jaume guided through the Pyrenees and took him to Spain.
Escaped staying there with another brother of the guide, while their initial guide travels to Barcelona to contact the British Consulate. On April 22, a truck in front of which sits a Spanish artillery captain, comes to seek to lead in Barcelona where they arrived on 23. The consul gives 200 pesetas each escaped, as well as civilian clothes and is accommodated in various houses and hotels in the city.
Creason confirmed in his report that arrives in Spain on April 10, 1944, reached Gibraltar 28 via Madrid, where he is the U.S. Consulate with Lathrop, Pederson and Lt. Michael L. Smith and he left Gibraltar by air on May 4 to arrive the next day in Bristol, England. He is interviewed on the same day in London by the IS 9.
Lowell Creason lies at Crown Hill Cemetery in Excelsior Springs, Missouri
Lowell Isaac Creason / 37138269
3300 West Coleman Road, Kansas City, Missouri and Paurer Lake Road, Excelsior Springs, Missouri, USA
Born August 3, 1919 / † February 5, 1986 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
S / Sgt, USAF 322 Bomber Group 449 Bomber Squadron radio operator
Landed 2km from Lederzeele, Pas-de-Calais, France. Martin B-26B-30-MA Marauder Serial No.: 41-31948 Registration / Name: PN / K, shot by the Flak January 14, 1944 during a mission on V weapons sites in the St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. Crushed south of Gravelines, Nord, France. Duration: 3 months. happened in Spain.
Additional information:
The crew report on the loss of this device loss: MACR 1748. Escape E & E 616, available online report.
The Marauder off of St. Andrews to 09:30. One minute after the bomb run, the device is achieved by flak. The intercom is inoperative and the driver rang the alarm bell.
The pilot, 1st Lt. Samuel A. Walker Jr. was captured, as well as the co-pilot 2nd Lt. James D. Pearson, the dorsal gunner T / Sgt John J. Perhart and rear gunner S / Sgt Edward G. Riegelhuth.
Besides Lowell Creason, two other men succeeded in escaping: Browser / bomber Paul Wolff and ventral gunner S / Sgt William J. Brogle, which usually flew with another crew (it will remain hidden in the Pas-de-Calais until the liberation in September 1944 - E & E 1567).
Lowell Creason, which is the 28th mission jumps to 4200 m via the bomb bay behind Wolff and Walker. The co-pilot Pearson is standing behind him when he jumps. Creason seriously injured in the ear opening his parachute and loses his escape kit in the fall. He landed in a plowed field and then he takes off his parachute, three young French flock around him, one of them puts the parachute in a bag while the other two outweigh the rest of the equipment and lead him to a hiding place in the bushes, where he remained throughout the afternoon.
They bring him food and stealthily at night, one of his helpers leads him in and after cycling leads to a hut where he finds Lederzeele teammate Paul Wolff and Wayne Greer and Walter Satterfield , two members of the crew of B26 No. 42-31880 its same squadron, fell a few kilometers away.
Emile DEGRAEVE, farmer and local representative of the resistance group, arrived at the hut, bringing them food. DEGRAEVE will then come a nun who heal the wound in the ear of Creason. The next evening, the four men in DEGRAEVE restore and are conducted in another house in the village see Sgt Daniel Mertes , also of 41-31880, whose legs are paralyzed.
The day before dawn, the five escapees are guided to a large farm 2 km Lederzeele in Vasseur, where they remain two days. A new then reaches them that Mr. and Mrs. DEGRAEVE and their two daughters were arrested shortly after the start of the airmen they had hosted. Ms. DEGRAEVE and her two daughters were freed after a week, but Emile DEGRAEVE was still detained when Creason left the area.
It then leads the five airmen at a farm where a Belgian, his wife Mary and Cyril's brother lived it (Mertes cites the "MILLS VAN?"). Vasseur and the owner of the firm contributed to the costs involved in hosting there escapees airmen. 8 or 9 February, Sylvia (23 years, 160cm, blonde, blue eyes, knowing very little English) and two other young women arriving from Paris and take them Creason, Satterfield and Wolff by truck to Saint-Omer.
We find traces of Lowell Creason in the files of French officers Comet that help PLEHIERS including Gaston and his wife Hattie CAGNARD 4th Street Victorien Sardou in Saint-Omer, which harbor. The same sources indicate that Creason and Paul Wolff then went through PLEHIERS two Madeleine DUMONT guides who take them to Paris in February 1944: Marie-Andrée COLUMBUS "Yvette" (living in Paris 5 Rue Champfleury to seventh with his stepmother Madeleine DUMONT) and Louise Lenoir (single designer at 36 Rue Erard Paris XII). In its report of activities, Gaston PLEHIERS information Creason as "Greason Larvoll" and mentions four other airmen.
The report indicates that Creason of Saint-Omer, the group took the train to Arras then another to Paris. At this point, Creason spends a night in the apartment of a priest and the next day is led by Sylvia first a photographer, then Madame OF VILLATTE where he remained seven days, four sick in bed.
Sylvia comes looking for the lead to his own apartment in the eastern part of the capital. There lodge for five days before Sylvia guide to the apartment of the two sisters "Malaprade" (= Genevieve and Jacqueline Maleprade) near the Bois de Boulogne (file Françoise BOURCART accurate it is at 9 Street Civry Paris XVI). They are both schoolteachers (the Institute Sevigne, according BOURCART) and they host Creason for nearly a month stay during which several members of the organization will see, but Sylvia. In late February, a brunette, 1m55, brown eyes, just inform what the head of the organization and most of the members of the network were arrested. Thereafter, Creason learns that the brunette was also apprehended, and apparently Sylvia.
Miss Maleprade then immediately contacts with some friends Creason which contains the names in the report, noting that it is not sure of the spelling of their names. So he quotes Francis "GROVE", his wife "Louise", their two children, Andrew and Jacqueline 9 years 13 years. It states that BOSQUET leading a major printing and friends in Stuart's Dress Shop in Remley House, near Piccadilly, London. The activities Francis BOUCHY report (the "Grove" of Creason), printer at 147 Boulevard Saint-Michel, tells us that Françoise BOURCART, guardian of unmarried children, housed Creason a night with her at 70 Rue Assas, Parix seventh. She had been looking at the sisters with Ms. Maleprade BOUCHY (Suzanne DELRIEUX). In his paper, Creason says he saw workers working on the construction of a tunnel at the corner of Rue d'Assas and Rue Guynemer.
About 8 or 9 March, then leads Creason in BOUCHY near the Luxembourg Gardens, and later learned that he had hardly left the apartment of Maleprade of the Gestapo had burst there. The two sisters were arrested but quickly released after a fruitless interrogation. As the report states Creason he stayed with Paul Wolff until March 9, but without the name or evoke from his statement on February 8-9, one might think that Wolff has followed the same path until at that time (?)
BOUCHY provides new clothes and false papers Creason and March 23, arrives home a woman named "AUBERY" 1m75, about 35/40 years old, brunette, thin, bespectacled, the head of another network. She takes Creason at the apartment of Mrs. Jules Henri, near the Place de la Concorde, where she asks Creason to verify the identity of Pederson who is there. This is the S / Sgt Arnold O. Pederson, dorsal gunner of B-17 No. 42-37946 of the 452 Bomb Group shot 8 February 1944 which Pederson is the only member of the crew managed to escape. Note that in the report Pederson, E & E 615, the date is questioned by the AUBERY Creason is 25 and not 23 March ...
Creason's two days at Mrs. Jules Henri, described by Pederson as big, brunette, married to a French diplomat in the U.S. and then being a student at the University of Paris mom. At the end of his stay with Mrs. Henri, a young girl then picks Creason to drive in another part of the city and give it to a young man comes up Creason coffee. Pederson said that the date is March 28 and the girl in question is named PAULETTE, whose sister, her husband and herself had hosted Pederson and another escaped, T / Sgt Archie R. Barlow (only escaped from the B-24 No. 42-7635 of 44 Bomber Group shot Jan. 21, 1944 - discharged by Marie-Odile network to the Pyrenees and Spell April / May 1944 - E & E 687)). Pederson says PAULETTE sister and daughter of the owner of another cafe where working PAULETTE, Pederson bring this other cafe, where he sees and meets Creason Lt Lathrop (see below), the Fl / Lt David Goldberg (RCAF Spitfire pilot shot MJ356 March 8, 1944 - discharged to the Pyrenees in April 1944 by the network Françoise Marie-Louise DISSARD - GSP 3319/1910) and the S / L Robert Gordon Crosby (RCAF Typhoon JP446 shot dead January 3, 1944 - discharged to the Pyrenees in April 1944 by the network Françoise Marie-Louise DISSARD - GSP 3319/1908).
The report states Creason he and the other four take a train to Toulouse and that from that moment the story of his escape is the same as that of Lathrop, Pederson also noted that in its report. Creason its own report concludes by stating that the organization is in dire need of civilian clothes and especially shoes to fit the escapees.
Lt. Neil H. Lathrop is the pilot of B-17 No. 42-30386 of the 305 Bomb Group shot on 7 January 1944. Reading his escape ratio (E & E 613) tells us that the coffee date is the headquarters of the network "Françoise" Marie-Louise DISSARD mentioned above. We take what he tells from the start of the five escapees to Toulouse their guide is a young student at the University of Toulouse, wearing sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his head. Arrived in Toulouse, they take a railcar to Montesquieu, then a bus to St-Girons where they stay eight days in a barn at the foot of the Pyrenees. On the seventh day, they were joined by John Watson Smith (that Lathrop had met before, a British citizen, born in South Africa and wanted by the Gestapo for helping another airman escaped).
Lathrop did not specify how they were guided through the Pyrenees, but we find some details in the report of 2nd Lt. Michael L. Smith (pilot of the P-47 No. 42-76337 of the 366th Fighter Group on 17 March 1944 - E & E 614).
Smith reports that arrived on a farm in the hillside, he met Lathrop, Pederson, Creason, Goldberg, Crosby and Fl / Lt Watkins (P / Off William E. Watkins, driver Typhhon JR309 shot February 13, 1944 - GSP 3319/1909). These men set off on the night of April 7th through the Pyrenees. After 6 hours of walking, they meet another group, the guide promises to go find one of the men that the group Creason had to abandon apparently started in a home due to injury.
On April 8, they reach the top of a steep mountain and down the other side, a strong storm complicates their advance. Especially, says Smith, as one of Canada's practically walked barefoot and Goldberg and American bomber (?) Were in serious trouble. [In his report, Creason noted that during the first night in the Pyrenees, Lathrop almost brought one of two Canadian on his back to cross the mountain. He added that at some point, David Goldberg slipped on the ice on a rock and Lt. Smith was able to grab it and avoid falling into the abyss.]
The men took refuge in a valley where they spend the night, during which their guide abandoned. Therefore, the group of Smith and Creason separates from the other group-guided apparently by a French and a Belgian, this second group of seven escapees then returning to St Girons and Toulouse with these guides. Creason, Smith and peers while continuing to grow, with a guide "organization" making the journey with them, apparently new to the network, so as to make the recognition.
The group Creason back the side of the mountain and through the box, reached the Pallaresa. Their guide confirms them while they are both in Spain and leads beyond Port Salau where they spend the night of April 9 in the home of a Spanish friend of the guide. The next day, the group walks along the river and reaches Esterri Àneu where their guide presents to his younger brother who works with them until Escaló.
The Escapist reports do not provide the identity of the guides, but the name Creason appears in a list of seven airmen found in papers SOLDEVILLA Jaume and his wife Generosa (nee CORTINA), working in Catalonia for the Belgian network Jean and the local network François . It states Creason Jaume guided through the Pyrenees and took him to Spain.
Escaped staying there with another brother of the guide, while their initial guide travels to Barcelona to contact the British Consulate. On April 22, a truck in front of which sits a Spanish artillery captain, comes to seek to lead in Barcelona where they arrived on 23. The consul gives 200 pesetas each escaped, as well as civilian clothes and is accommodated in various houses and hotels in the city.
Creason confirmed in his report that arrives in Spain on April 10, 1944, reached Gibraltar 28 via Madrid, where he is the U.S. Consulate with Lathrop, Pederson and Lt. Michael L. Smith and he left Gibraltar by air on May 4 to arrive the next day in Bristol, England. He is interviewed on the same day in London by the IS 9.
Lowell Creason lies at Crown Hill Cemetery in Excelsior Springs, Missouri
3300 West Coleman Road, Kansas City, Missouri and Paurer Lake Road, Excelsior Springs, Missouri, USA
Born August 3, 1919 / † February 5, 1986 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
S / Sgt, USAF 322 Bomber Group 449 Bomber Squadron radio operator
Landed 2km from Lederzeele, Pas-de-Calais, France. Martin B-26B-30-MA Marauder Serial No.: 41-31948 Registration / Name: PN / K, shot by the Flak January 14, 1944 during a mission on V weapons sites in the St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. Crushed south of Gravelines, Nord, France. Duration: 3 months. happened in Spain.
Additional information:
The crew report on the loss of this device loss: MACR 1748. Escape E & E 616, available online report.
The Marauder off of St. Andrews to 09:30. One minute after the bomb run, the device is achieved by flak. The intercom is inoperative and the driver rang the alarm bell.
The pilot, 1st Lt. Samuel A. Walker Jr. was captured, as well as the co-pilot 2nd Lt. James D. Pearson, the dorsal gunner T / Sgt John J. Perhart and rear gunner S / Sgt Edward G. Riegelhuth.
Besides Lowell Creason, two other men succeeded in escaping: Browser / bomber Paul Wolff and ventral gunner S / Sgt William J. Brogle, which usually flew with another crew (it will remain hidden in the Pas-de-Calais until the liberation in September 1944 - E & E 1567).
Lowell Creason, which is the 28th mission jumps to 4200 m via the bomb bay behind Wolff and Walker. The co-pilot Pearson is standing behind him when he jumps. Creason seriously injured in the ear opening his parachute and loses his escape kit in the fall. He landed in a plowed field and then he takes off his parachute, three young French flock around him, one of them puts the parachute in a bag while the other two outweigh the rest of the equipment and lead him to a hiding place in the bushes, where he remained throughout the afternoon.
They bring him food and stealthily at night, one of his helpers leads him in and after cycling leads to a hut where he finds Lederzeele teammate Paul Wolff and Wayne Greer and Walter Satterfield , two members of the crew of B26 No. 42-31880 its same squadron, fell a few kilometers away.
Emile DEGRAEVE, farmer and local representative of the resistance group, arrived at the hut, bringing them food. DEGRAEVE will then come a nun who heal the wound in the ear of Creason. The next evening, the four men in DEGRAEVE restore and are conducted in another house in the village see Sgt Daniel Mertes , also of 41-31880, whose legs are paralyzed.
The day before dawn, the five escapees are guided to a large farm 2 km Lederzeele in Vasseur, where they remain two days. A new then reaches them that Mr. and Mrs. DEGRAEVE and their two daughters were arrested shortly after the start of the airmen they had hosted. Ms. DEGRAEVE and her two daughters were freed after a week, but Emile DEGRAEVE was still detained when Creason left the area.
It then leads the five airmen at a farm where a Belgian, his wife Mary and Cyril's brother lived it (Mertes cites the "MILLS VAN?"). Vasseur and the owner of the firm contributed to the costs involved in hosting there escapees airmen. 8 or 9 February, Sylvia (23 years, 160cm, blonde, blue eyes, knowing very little English) and two other young women arriving from Paris and take them Creason, Satterfield and Wolff by truck to Saint-Omer.
We find traces of Lowell Creason in the files of French officers Comet that help PLEHIERS including Gaston and his wife Hattie CAGNARD 4th Street Victorien Sardou in Saint-Omer, which harbor. The same sources indicate that Creason and Paul Wolff then went through PLEHIERS two Madeleine DUMONT guides who take them to Paris in February 1944: Marie-Andrée COLUMBUS "Yvette" (living in Paris 5 Rue Champfleury to seventh with his stepmother Madeleine DUMONT) and Louise Lenoir (single designer at 36 Rue Erard Paris XII). In its report of activities, Gaston PLEHIERS information Creason as "Greason Larvoll" and mentions four other airmen.
The report indicates that Creason of Saint-Omer, the group took the train to Arras then another to Paris. At this point, Creason spends a night in the apartment of a priest and the next day is led by Sylvia first a photographer, then Madame OF VILLATTE where he remained seven days, four sick in bed.
Sylvia comes looking for the lead to his own apartment in the eastern part of the capital. There lodge for five days before Sylvia guide to the apartment of the two sisters "Malaprade" (= Genevieve and Jacqueline Maleprade) near the Bois de Boulogne (file Françoise BOURCART accurate it is at 9 Street Civry Paris XVI). They are both schoolteachers (the Institute Sevigne, according BOURCART) and they host Creason for nearly a month stay during which several members of the organization will see, but Sylvia. In late February, a brunette, 1m55, brown eyes, just inform what the head of the organization and most of the members of the network were arrested. Thereafter, Creason learns that the brunette was also apprehended, and apparently Sylvia.
Miss Maleprade then immediately contacts with some friends Creason which contains the names in the report, noting that it is not sure of the spelling of their names. So he quotes Francis "GROVE", his wife "Louise", their two children, Andrew and Jacqueline 9 years 13 years. It states that BOSQUET leading a major printing and friends in Stuart's Dress Shop in Remley House, near Piccadilly, London. The activities Francis BOUCHY report (the "Grove" of Creason), printer at 147 Boulevard Saint-Michel, tells us that Françoise BOURCART, guardian of unmarried children, housed Creason a night with her at 70 Rue Assas, Parix seventh. She had been looking at the sisters with Ms. Maleprade BOUCHY (Suzanne DELRIEUX). In his paper, Creason says he saw workers working on the construction of a tunnel at the corner of Rue d'Assas and Rue Guynemer.
About 8 or 9 March, then leads Creason in BOUCHY near the Luxembourg Gardens, and later learned that he had hardly left the apartment of Maleprade of the Gestapo had burst there. The two sisters were arrested but quickly released after a fruitless interrogation. As the report states Creason he stayed with Paul Wolff until March 9, but without the name or evoke from his statement on February 8-9, one might think that Wolff has followed the same path until at that time (?)
BOUCHY provides new clothes and false papers Creason and March 23, arrives home a woman named "AUBERY" 1m75, about 35/40 years old, brunette, thin, bespectacled, the head of another network. She takes Creason at the apartment of Mrs. Jules Henri, near the Place de la Concorde, where she asks Creason to verify the identity of Pederson who is there. This is the S / Sgt Arnold O. Pederson, dorsal gunner of B-17 No. 42-37946 of the 452 Bomb Group shot 8 February 1944 which Pederson is the only member of the crew managed to escape. Note that in the report Pederson, E & E 615, the date is questioned by the AUBERY Creason is 25 and not 23 March ...
Creason's two days at Mrs. Jules Henri, described by Pederson as big, brunette, married to a French diplomat in the U.S. and then being a student at the University of Paris mom. At the end of his stay with Mrs. Henri, a young girl then picks Creason to drive in another part of the city and give it to a young man comes up Creason coffee. Pederson said that the date is March 28 and the girl in question is named PAULETTE, whose sister, her husband and herself had hosted Pederson and another escaped, T / Sgt Archie R. Barlow (only escaped from the B-24 No. 42-7635 of 44 Bomber Group shot Jan. 21, 1944 - discharged by Marie-Odile network to the Pyrenees and Spell April / May 1944 - E & E 687)). Pederson says PAULETTE sister and daughter of the owner of another cafe where working PAULETTE, Pederson bring this other cafe, where he sees and meets Creason Lt Lathrop (see below), the Fl / Lt David Goldberg (RCAF Spitfire pilot shot MJ356 March 8, 1944 - discharged to the Pyrenees in April 1944 by the network Françoise Marie-Louise DISSARD - GSP 3319/1910) and the S / L Robert Gordon Crosby (RCAF Typhoon JP446 shot dead January 3, 1944 - discharged to the Pyrenees in April 1944 by the network Françoise Marie-Louise DISSARD - GSP 3319/1908).
The report states Creason he and the other four take a train to Toulouse and that from that moment the story of his escape is the same as that of Lathrop, Pederson also noted that in its report. Creason its own report concludes by stating that the organization is in dire need of civilian clothes and especially shoes to fit the escapees.
Lt. Neil H. Lathrop is the pilot of B-17 No. 42-30386 of the 305 Bomb Group shot on 7 January 1944. Reading his escape ratio (E & E 613) tells us that the coffee date is the headquarters of the network "Françoise" Marie-Louise DISSARD mentioned above. We take what he tells from the start of the five escapees to Toulouse their guide is a young student at the University of Toulouse, wearing sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his head. Arrived in Toulouse, they take a railcar to Montesquieu, then a bus to St-Girons where they stay eight days in a barn at the foot of the Pyrenees. On the seventh day, they were joined by John Watson Smith (that Lathrop had met before, a British citizen, born in South Africa and wanted by the Gestapo for helping another airman escaped).
Lathrop did not specify how they were guided through the Pyrenees, but we find some details in the report of 2nd Lt. Michael L. Smith (pilot of the P-47 No. 42-76337 of the 366th Fighter Group on 17 March 1944 - E & E 614).
Smith reports that arrived on a farm in the hillside, he met Lathrop, Pederson, Creason, Goldberg, Crosby and Fl / Lt Watkins (P / Off William E. Watkins, driver Typhhon JR309 shot February 13, 1944 - GSP 3319/1909). These men set off on the night of April 7th through the Pyrenees. After 6 hours of walking, they meet another group, the guide promises to go find one of the men that the group Creason had to abandon apparently started in a home due to injury.
On April 8, they reach the top of a steep mountain and down the other side, a strong storm complicates their advance. Especially, says Smith, as one of Canada's practically walked barefoot and Goldberg and American bomber (?) Were in serious trouble. [In his report, Creason noted that during the first night in the Pyrenees, Lathrop almost brought one of two Canadian on his back to cross the mountain. He added that at some point, David Goldberg slipped on the ice on a rock and Lt. Smith was able to grab it and avoid falling into the abyss.]
The men took refuge in a valley where they spend the night, during which their guide abandoned. Therefore, the group of Smith and Creason separates from the other group-guided apparently by a French and a Belgian, this second group of seven escapees then returning to St Girons and Toulouse with these guides. Creason, Smith and peers while continuing to grow, with a guide "organization" making the journey with them, apparently new to the network, so as to make the recognition.
The group Creason back the side of the mountain and through the box, reached the Pallaresa. Their guide confirms them while they are both in Spain and leads beyond Port Salau where they spend the night of April 9 in the home of a Spanish friend of the guide. The next day, the group walks along the river and reaches Esterri Àneu where their guide presents to his younger brother who works with them until Escaló.
The Escapist reports do not provide the identity of the guides, but the name Creason appears in a list of seven airmen found in papers SOLDEVILLA Jaume and his wife Generosa (nee CORTINA), working in Catalonia for the Belgian network Jean and the local network François . It states Creason Jaume guided through the Pyrenees and took him to Spain.
Escaped staying there with another brother of the guide, while their initial guide travels to Barcelona to contact the British Consulate. On April 22, a truck in front of which sits a Spanish artillery captain, comes to seek to lead in Barcelona where they arrived on 23. The consul gives 200 pesetas each escaped, as well as civilian clothes and is accommodated in various houses and hotels in the city.
Creason confirmed in his report that arrives in Spain on April 10, 1944, reached Gibraltar 28 via Madrid, where he is the U.S. Consulate with Lathrop, Pederson and Lt. Michael L. Smith and he left Gibraltar by air on May 4 to arrive the next day in Bristol, England. He is interviewed on the same day in London by the IS 9.
Lowell Creason lies at Crown Hill Cemetery in Excelsior Springs, Missouri
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