Michael Darter's Blog – April 2015 Archive (2)

We had tracked the flight path of the Lonesome Polecat B-17F from Bremen, Germany to Texel Island, Netherlands through individual surviving crew reports as well as eyewitness reports on Texel. In addition, we discovered reports from two German pilots who saw the B-17 crash near De Koog village.  With all this information, we knew the general flight path of the B-17 across Texel as the crew proceeded to bail out thinking they were over the North Sea.





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Every year, I would return to Texel Island to search for more information about my brother and his crew. I have met numerous people and government officials who were interested in the story and offered to help.

A “Message from Beyond” discovered on beach just days before memorial to three MIA airmen. Read more at  http://bit.ly/1OEOUaf