View Cenotaph and family links at HERE.
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He was the co-pilot on a B-17 on a bombing run on an oil refinery.
The plane received direct flak hit to the no.4 engine at 14:25 in the vicinity of Leipzig, Germany. The right wing immediately caught fire. The B-17 slid under the formation, the right wing came off, it rolled over on its back and the tail came off at the rear entrance door. The plane crashed. Six crew members were killed and were buried at the cemetery of Beucha on 31 May 1944.
According to witness statements of surviving crew members, 2nd Lt Pfahler was shot by civilians upon landing with his parachute.
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-p/45123-pfahler-ervin-j
Contributor: ET (47514618) •
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He was the co-pilot on a B-17 on a bombing run on an oil refinery.
The plane received direct flak hit to the no.4 engine at 14:25 in the vicinity of Leipzig, Germany. The right wing immediately caught fire. The B-17 slid under the formation, the right wing came off, it rolled over on its back and the tail came off at the rear entrance door. The plane crashed. Six crew members were killed and were buried at the cemetery of Beucha on 31 May 1944.
According to witness statements of surviving crew members, 2nd Lt Pfahler was shot by civilians upon landing with his parachute.
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-p/45123-pfahler-ervin-j
Contributor: ET (47514618) •
View Cenotaph and family links at HERE.
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He was the co-pilot on a B-17 on a bombing run on an oil refinery.
The plane received direct flak hit to the no.4 engine at 14:25 in the vicinity of Leipzig, Germany. The right wing immediately caught fire. The B-17 slid under the formation, the right wing came off, it rolled over on its back and the tail came off at the rear entrance door. The plane crashed. Six crew members were killed and were buried at the cemetery of Beucha on 31 May 1944.
According to witness statements of surviving crew members, 2nd Lt Pfahler was shot by civilians upon landing with his parachute.
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-p/45123-pfahler-ervin-j
Contributor: ET (47514618) •
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He was the co-pilot on a B-17 on a bombing run on an oil refinery.
The plane received direct flak hit to the no.4 engine at 14:25 in the vicinity of Leipzig, Germany. The right wing immediately caught fire. The B-17 slid under the formation, the right wing came off, it rolled over on its back and the tail came off at the rear entrance door. The plane crashed. Six crew members were killed and were buried at the cemetery of Beucha on 31 May 1944.
According to witness statements of surviving crew members, 2nd Lt Pfahler was shot by civilians upon landing with his parachute.
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-p/45123-pfahler-ervin-j
Contributor: ET (47514618) •
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