{"id":1073,"date":"2011-09-09T00:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T07:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?page_id=1073"},"modified":"2012-12-18T06:27:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T14:27:14","slug":"wwll","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?page_id=1073","title":{"rendered":"WW2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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F\/O\u00c2\u00a0Ralph E. Hamilton, 1944<\/p><\/div>\n

Flight Officer Ralph E. Hamilton<\/a>: 8th Air Force, 78th Fighter Group, 83rd Squadron (P-51, “Debra Del<\/a>“) Escorting\u00c2\u00a0 B-17 “Flying Fortress” bombers on a mission to N\u00c3\u00bcrnberg, Germany, Hamilton’s P-51 Mustang was shot down by anti-aircraft fire while strafing a train near Crailsheim on February\u00c2\u00a022, 1945 at 12:15 hours.\u00c2\u00a0His engine lost coolant, and he decided to\u00c2\u00a0bail\u00c2\u00a0out five minutes south of the town. He popped the canopy and pushed off after slowing the plane down, but he clipped his ankle on\u00c2\u00a0a rear stabilizer and tried to escape to the Swiss border with this\u00c2\u00a0injury. He was\u00c2\u00a0captured and taken prisoner,\u00c2\u00a0initially taken to Dulag Luft West at Wetzlar, a\u00c2\u00a0transit camp near Frankfurt. Before he was taken to Dulag Luft West, his captor, a Luftwaffe airman, took him drinking and even home to meet his parents! Hanns-Claudius Scharff, son of Auswertestelle West’s <\/em>“master interrogator” Hanns Scharff, said he thinks\u00c2\u00a0Ralph’s captor was an interrogator\u00c2\u00a0using techniques common to his father to get information.\u00c2\u00a0After his visit at Oberursel, Ralph eventually transferred to\u00c2\u00a0Stalag 7A near Moosburg, which was eventually liberated by Patton’s 3rd Army at the end of April, 1945.<\/p>\n

MISSING AIR CREW REPORT (MACR) for F\/O<\/strong> Ralph Hamilton<\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0 12681<\/a><\/p>\n

MISSING AIR CREW REPORT (MACR) for F\/O<\/strong> Charles R. O’Brien Jr<\/strong>, who filed the report on Ralph and was kind enough to provide coordinates in his handwritten notes\u00c2\u00a0that don’t appear in the official\u00c2\u00a0report. O’Brien’s P-51, “Green Eyes,” was shot down four days after Ralph was shot down.\u00c2\u00a0He apparently survived the landing but was\u00c2\u00a0killed for unknown reasons while\u00c2\u00a0German custody:\u00c2\u00a0 12761<\/a><\/p>\n

O’Brien’s\u00c2\u00a0notes:\u00c2\u00a0 observer field notes<\/a>. I plugged these coordinates (49\u00c2\u00b0S, 10\u00c2\u00b012\u00e2\u20ac\u2122E) into Google Earth and found the\u00c2\u00a0marshalling yards Ralph was shooting at when he was hit and the area in which he is likely to have bailed out.\u00c2\u00a0Crailsheim marshalling yards<\/a>. (Note: The correct longitude is 49\u00c2\u00b0 N)<\/p>\n

O’Brien went down near the village of Oldebrook<\/a>, Netherlands–about 14 km SW of Zwolle<\/span>:<\/p>\n

Ralph’s\u00c2\u00a0report on the downing of Lt. Jack LaGrange\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>is included in LaGrange’s MACR.<\/p>\n

“A KRIEGIE’S PRAYER (Written while a POW)<\/a><\/p>\n

Lloyd Eadline was Ralph’s roomate at Duxford. Eadline was killed two days\u00c2\u00a0after Ralph\u00c2\u00a0lost his P-51 in Germany:<\/p>\n

Accident Report for Lt. Lloyd Eadline<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(MACR) Eadline was thought to have bailed out over the Zuider Zee<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0probably drowned.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0<\/dd>\n
Ralph drew this cartoon of Lloyd on the back of this\u00c2\u00a0photo. The swastike represent a kill Eadline made in Sept. 1944<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

* F\/O= Flight Officer<\/p>\n

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List of 78th Fighter Wing losses<\/a><\/p>\n

List of all 78th FG pilots<\/a><\/p>\n

(Photo) After training at Strother Field, Kansas, 1944<\/a><\/p>\n

(Photo) Ralph with his daughter, Debra Dell, for whom he named his plane)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flight Officer Ralph E. Hamilton: 8th Air Force, 78th Fighter Group, 83rd Squadron (P-51, “Debra Del“) Escorting\u00c2\u00a0 B-17 “Flying Fortress” bombers on a mission to N\u00c3\u00bcrnberg, Germany, Hamilton’s P-51 Mustang was shot down by anti-aircraft fire while strafing a train near Crailsheim on February\u00c2\u00a022, 1945 at 12:15 hours.\u00c2\u00a0His engine lost coolant, and he decided to\u00c2\u00a0bail\u00c2\u00a0out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1tQeJ-hj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":778,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?page_id=778","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":0},"title":"Poetry","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"April 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"McDonalds and Disneyland in Baghdad\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Shawn Hamilton The Streets of Taiwan\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Shawn Hamilton Tibetan Book of the Dead\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Shawn Hamilton Photo: Gary Snyder:\u00c2\u00a0on Mount Tamalpais ca. 2003","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6872,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?page_id=6872","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":1},"title":"Department of White-wing Politics","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"September 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":639,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?page_id=639","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":2},"title":"Censored","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"February 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Story # 14: Project Censored Awards Ceremony AE911Truth Project: Censored \"Project Censored Annual Awards Event\" \"Over 1000 architects and engineers have signed petition to reinvestigate 9-11 destruction\" \"Censored 2011, Chapter 14\" \"David Ray Griffin on Media Resistance to 9-11 issues\" State Crimes Against Democracy \"Journalist Robert Fisk speaks at Sacramento\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":976,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?page_id=976","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":3},"title":"Under the Rug","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"July 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"THE TRUTH IS NOT ENOUGH\u00c2\u00a0(Ken Jenkins, December 1, 2011) Over 1000 architects and engineers have signed petition to reinvestigate 9-11 destruction\u00c2\u00a0(Picked up by Project Censored; see Chapter 14, Censored 2011) Censored 2011, Chapter 14 (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Increased Tensions with Unresolved 9\/11 Issues\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) AE911Truth Project: Censored\u00c2\u00a0 (account\u00c2\u00a0of one reporter's efforts\u00c2\u00a0to report on 9\/11\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":561,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?page_id=561","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":4},"title":"Topic Boneyard","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"December 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"TSA: The dangerous stranger Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s give the good folks at TSA a break! Jennifer Chou:\u00c2\u00a0TSA screening: no logic, no freedom, just fear, hatred and molestation Passenger handcuffed and arrested for not letting TSA touch her breasts Homeland Security troll busted spamming We Won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Fly TSA terrorizes 4-year-old disabled boy in\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}