Monuments
B-24 'Double Trouble' (41-29244) Crash Site Marker
B-24 (41-29244) 'Double Trouble' Info Sign
Name:
Edwin Heine Pries
Rank:
First Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-745173
Unit:
725th Bomb Squadron
Date of Death:
1944-02-25
State:
Iowa
Cemetery:
Harlington Cemetery, Waverly, Iowa
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Born 17 November 1918. Pilot of the B-25 Liberator 41-29244 “Double Trouble” that took off from Gioia del Colle, Italy on a mission to bomb the German Messerschmitt aircraft factory by Regensburg. Shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Slovenia. Five crew members went down with the plane and five parachuted from the severely damaged aircraft. Pries perished in the crash.