peak Brloh Sharp Hill | TRIBEČ

Type: Interesting

Description:
TRIBEČ never disappoints ...
Unknown hills BRLOH 614 m a.s.l. and OSTRÁ HORKA 441 m a.s.l. in the Tribeč Mountains and the crash site of the BOEING B-17G aircraft during World War II.

On February 14, 1945, an American bomber Boeing B-17G took off from the Amendola base in Italy. Their target was the Schwechat oil refinery. During the bombing of the target, the aircraft was hit by German anti-aircraft artillery /Flak/ in the left engine and the right wing also caught fire. Both left engines failed. The pilots tried to fly the plane somewhere safe. The burning plane flew over Slovak territory. It was slightly damaged and its control was almost impossible. The aircraft captain ordered the crew to abandon the plane. The entire crew parachuted in the Modra area and the unmanned machine continued further. Without a crew, it flew slowly descending another about a hundred kilometers. It crashed into the Tribeč Mountains above the village of Krnča. Sergeant Richard Hearing landed in the forest, his parachute got caught in the tree crowns and there, hanging in the parachute harness, he was shot by a local forester. He buried him at the scene. The other crew members were gradually captured by the German army that same evening and taken to the municipal prison in Modra, then to Bratislava and finally transported to a POW camp in Germany, where they survived the end of World War II.

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