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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 | Photograph Number: 08199
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.

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 Designation
LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Vienenburg-Lochtum
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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Photo Source
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
Source Record ID: 111-SC-206133 (Album 3209)
 
Record last modified: 2007-03-27 00:00:00
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