Air Force Geocoin Apollo II USAF

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Monday, August 1, 2011
Origin:
Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
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Dropped Off 2/22/2018 Apollo II placed it in Peruť 312 Hlavní město Praha, Czechia - 291.8 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/15/2017 Apollo II took it to P-47 Thunderbolt crash site Niedersachsen, Germany - 293.62 miles  Visit Log

1st Lieutenant William Arthur RAUTENBUSH, born 11 April 1920 in Cook County, IL, KIA May 8 1944.
He crashed in P-47D-11RE sn 42-75555, E2-Y, on the cache coords near Verden, when attacking E/A during 361FG/375FS bomber escort mission to Nienburg, Germany.
MACR 4539.
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-ardennes-r/52401-rautenbush-william-a

  • 1st Lt Rautenbush's P-47D-11RE 42-75555 crash site
  • a crater created by crashed P-47D-11RE 42-75555
  • 1st Lt William A. Rautenbush's memorial
  • 1st Lt Rautenbush's commemorative plaque in detail
  • 1st Lieutenant William Arthur RAUTENBUSH
  • a P-47 of the 375th FS 361st FG
Visited 8/13/2017 Apollo II took it to Cave Taurum Cimbricum Denmark - 529.17 miles  Visit Log

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter near Danish Air Force station Aalborg and its history.

  • F-104 Starfighter near Aalborg Air Base
  • Apollo II USAF at the site
Visited 7/14/2017 Apollo II took it to Lt. Duane O.Hague - BILTEMA cache Středočeský kraj, Czechia - 52.48 miles  Visit Log

2nd Lt Duane O. HAGUE, 364th FG/ 383rd FS, bailed out (POW) of his North American P-51D-20-NA 44-72358, N2*D "Josephine" near Slany on 17 Apr 1945, after being hit into the plane's cooling system by german flak over Praha-Ruzyně airfield. The abandoned airplane crashed in the field between villages of Kamenné Žehrovice and Tuchlovice, exploded and burned out.

  • GC6FP0V
  • Tuchlovice
  • 383rd Fighter Squadron P-51Ds at Honington station photo source: http://www.littlefriends.co.uk
  • 383rd Fighter Squadron badge
Visited 12/10/2016 Apollo II took it to 1944 - Nalet u Libice n/C Středočeský kraj, Czechia - 80.6 miles  Visit Log

A P-51 Mustang(s) of the 325th Fighter Group / 15th AF (performing fighter escort for B-24 Liberators air raid on Vacuum Oil Company A.G. that day) strafed passenger train No.805 near Libice nad Cidlinou on December 28, 1944 at 12:35. Train driver didn't react to the warning flyby of the attacking aircraft and the consequences were tragic: 26 Czech civilians dead and 62 wounded. The steam engine No.434.2268 was destroyed and five railways cars damaged.

  • 1944 - Nalet u Libice n/C
  • strafing area
Visited 9/22/2016 Apollo II took it to Lightningy nad Budejovicemi Jihočeský kraj, Czechia - 263.2 miles  Visit Log

A Wherigo(fly) dedicated to P-38s strafing missions over the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
1/Lt. Robert W. Whitehead, Canadian member of 37thFighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th AF, was shot down over Srubec village southeast of Ceske Budejovice by a Fw190 (speculation on the battleship squadron of SG 10) on 11.IV.1945, when flying a strafing mission over southern Bohemia in his Lockheed P-38L-5 Lightning 44-25720.

  • Robert Whitehead's memorial at Dobra voda cemetery
  • Robert Whitehead's memorial in Srubec village
  • USAF GC near the final coordinates
  • Lightning
Visited 9/22/2016 Apollo II took it to Letec Jihočeský kraj, Czechia - 23.14 miles  Visit Log

Crash site of Canadian pilot 1/Lt. Robert W. Whitehead, member of 37th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th AF. He was shot down over Srubec village southeast of Ceske Budejovice by a Fw190 (speculation on the battleship squadron of SG 10 returning to the Plana airfield) on 11.IV.1945, when flying a strafing mission over southern Bohemia in his Lockheed P-38L-5 Lightning 44-25720.

  • Memorial at Dobra Voda cemetery
  • crash site in Srubec
  • memorial in detail
  • P-38s over Europe
Visited 9/21/2016 Apollo II took it to Pomnik padleho letce Jihočeský kraj, Czechia - 152.69 miles  Visit Log

Lt. Richard W. Stillman crashed on 26.V.1945 south of Žernovice (Prachatice county, CZ), in F-6C Mustang 42-103281, 10th Photo Reconnaissance Group, 12.TRS, 9 AF.
MACR 45-5-26-505

  • Lt. Richard W. Stillman memorial
  • detail with USAF geocoin
  • F6C 43-25162 of Stillman's wingmen source: Osprey publications
  • MACR 45-5-26-505_1
  • MACR 45-5-26-505_2
  • MACR 45-5-26-505_3
Visited 7/23/2016 Apollo II took it to Lotnisko Krzewica Lubelskie, Poland - 180.6 miles  Visit Log

1st Lieutenant Frank T. SIBBETT, 335th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, 8th AF, crashed 21 June 1944 near Krzewicy airfield / Miedzyrzeca Podlasie, Poland, in P-51B-7NA Mustang 43-6784, WD-X.
MACR 6800.
Pilot amerykańskiego samolotu myśliwskiego "Mustang" P-51 por. Frank T. Sibbet z San Francisco zestrzelony niedaleko lotniska w Krzewicy k/ Międzyrzeca Podlaskiego 21 czerwca 1944 r. podczas przelotu amerykańskich samolotów z jednego z lotnisk w Anglii do Połtawy na Ukrainie.
Pilot ratował się skokiem ze spadochronem ale ze względu na małą wysokość spadochron nie rozwinął się.

  • Lotnisko Krzewica
  • Lotnisko Krzewica
  • 1st Lieutenant Frank T. SIBBETT
Visited 7/22/2016 Apollo II took it to Muzeum Lotnictwa - Polish Aviation Museum Małopolskie, Poland - .15 miles  Visit Log

USAAF planes in Polish Aviation Museum Kraków

  • Muzeum Lotnictwa Kraków
  • Muzeum Lotnictwa Kraków
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