1941-1945

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Photo courtesy of Google Earth and Walt Webb

The first scene looks S to N across the bailout island where 6 of the crew jumped. Scranton and Cunningham (chutes didn't open) fell under the plane's path, while the 4 on chutes probably drifted a bit to the NNE, thus shown displaced slightly in that direction. Cunningham delayed his jump and so is separated from the rest. (A British air-sea rescue eyewitness recalled seeing the parachutes hanging in the trees "in a perfectly straight line.") Thirteen miles to the N, the 3 distant targets represent the general area where I believe the plane actually may have ditched with 4 on board. (Margolies and Reed perished; only Reed was recovered.)

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