Schweinfurt - Witness-Reports
1993, almost fifty years after an American bomber, B-17 have fallen away in Hessloch in the district. In the morning of August 17th, 1943 and this one was bomber units seen flew this one into the room Nuremberg/Regensburg of German counter-intelligence fighters were fought. I was in school at that time and could see that an aircraft which circled repeatedly over Hessian hole and then crashed in the district was shot down. In the sky these were, all persons were these in the aircraft the parachute was. The aircraft had landed with all bombs which exploded afterward.
After a conversation with Mr Hess from Abenheim 1988 were excavations this one has where a hollow which was removed by the reallocation of land still could be seen arranged in the place of the crash for real funnel and Mr Hess that you looked. It one still was - 5 metric hundredweights of bomb found. The body of these bomb, the coat is there in Abenheim. So he has been guaranteed.
Had you have assembled in the city hall of the municipality this one jumped down at the jump, the Americans. Were only seven pieces available there, though, the others must have jumped down in other places. So there weren't any casualties and the population still was unlocked actually opposite the Americans impressedly.
Source: Edwin Hess, The Report "Code Char" Band 3 -Spurensuche/1994-