The body of a U.S. pilot who was shot by German police, along with two other American airmen, in the town of Lochtum.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 08199

Overview

Caption: The body of a U.S. pilot who was shot by German police, along with two other American airmen, in the town of Lochtum.

After their crash landing, all three pilots were captured by local police and marched through Lochtum, where they were stoned by the inhabitants. The pilots were then executed and their bodies buried in anonymous graves without dog tags or other identification.
Date: 1945 May 12
Locale: Vienenburg-Lochtum, [Prussian Hanover; Lower Saxony] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-206133 (Album 3209)

Keyword: AIR FORCE (AMERICAN) ATROCITIES COFFINS CORPSES EXHUMATION/REBURIAL FORCED CONFRONTATION SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Vienenburg-Lochtum