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Input Aircraft
Aircraft	Database entry
Fokker G-1	G-1
Fokker D.21	D-XXI
Douglas D8	D8
Fokker C.5	C-V
Fokker T-8	T-8
Arado 66	Ar 66
Messerschmitt 109	Bf 109
Messerschmitt 262	Me 262
Dakota (RAF)	Dakota
C-47 (USAAF)	C-47
Fotress (RAF)	Fortress
B-17 (USAAF)	B-17
DeHavilland Moth	D.H.60
Fieseler Storch	Fi 156
Focke Wulf 200	Fw 200

Input Date
Date	Database entry
22nd June 43	22-06-43
15th October 42	15-10-42
5th March 43	05-03-43

Input Unit
Unit	Database entry
all on KG 4	/KG 4
all on JG 1	/JG 1
4FG/335FS	/335FS
all on 106 Sqdn	106 Sqdn
91BG/323BS	323BS
1 Lvr	1 Lvr

Evader chart: E0495
SGLO	Date crash	Aircraft
T3685	22-05-44	Lancaster
MilRank	First Name(s)	Name
W/O.	Bruce Hamilton	Davis
Milregnr.	Nationality	Born
AUS416563	Australian	Hamilton, SA, Australia, 22 Feb 1918

Returned Y/N	Evader Fate	Date Captured/Liberated	Place Captured/Liberated	Escape Line
No	EVD-POW	Jul 44	Lutterzandweg	-

Evader Story
W/O. Bruce Hamilton Davis was the bomb aimer of Lancaster ME722 that was hit by flak near Kleve. The pilot then decided to return but was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed north of Zwolle. Davis was wounded by shrapnel in one eye but bailed out after the plane was hit by flak and landed in Het Aamsveen to the east of Enschede. Together with fellow crewmember W/O II ‘Ted’ Moran (E0497), they got in touch with the local resistance who hid them with the Bosscher family at the Rijksweg 14 in Glanerbrug. The same day they were joined here by American S/Sgt. Anslow (E0473) who already left for Tilburg the next day. From Glanerburg, Davis and Moran moved to an address in Oldenzaal and then on to an address at the Lutterzandweg in De Lutte. The hiding place near Oldenzaal was probably the house of Johannes H. Racer Palthe at Volthe. He housed the two (according to himself) for six days at his home. Early in July 1944, they were arrested at the Lutterzandweg by the Germans. Davis was imprisoned in Stalag Luft VII Bankau and experienced a nervous breakdown there. Early in 1945 he was released in a PoW exchange arranged by the Red Cross and repatriated to Australia. Bruce Davis was discharged from military service in June 1946. He passed away on 6 February 1987 at the age of 68.
* Oliver Clutton-Brock and Raymond Crompton, The Long Road: Trials and Tribulations of Airmen Prisoners from Stalag Luft, page 155-156 * H.B. van Helden, De lijst van Haeck. Een overzicht van de hulpverlening aan geallieerde bemanningsleden en ontsnapte krijgsgevangenen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog (Hardenberg 2017), page 189 and 286 * National Archives, Washington, NAID: 286682184

Evader Story

						W/O. Bruce Hamilton Davis was the bomb aimer of Lancaster ME722 that was hit by flak near Kleve. The pilot then decided to return but was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed north of Zwolle. Davis was wounded by shrapnel in one eye but bailed out after the plane was hit by flak and landed in Het Aamsveen to the east of Enschede. Together with fellow crewmember W/O II ‘Ted’ Moran (E0497), they got in touch with the local resistance who hid them with the Bosscher family at the Rijksweg 14 in Glanerbrug. The same day they were joined here by American S/Sgt. Anslow (E0473) who already left for Tilburg the next day. From Glanerburg, Davis and Moran moved to an address in Oldenzaal and then on to an address at the Lutterzandweg in De Lutte. The hiding place near Oldenzaal was probably the house of Johannes H. Racer Palthe at Volthe. He housed the two (according to himself) for six days at his home. Early in July 1944, they were arrested at the Lutterzandweg by the Germans. Davis was imprisoned in Stalag Luft VII Bankau and experienced a nervous breakdown there. Early in 1945 he was released in a PoW exchange arranged by the Red Cross and repatriated to Australia.

Bruce Davis was discharged from military service in June 1946. He passed away on 6 February 1987 at the age of 68.

Source(s)

* Oliver Clutton-Brock and Raymond Crompton, The Long Road: Trials and Tribulations of Airmen Prisoners from Stalag Luft, page 155-156
* H.B. van Helden, De lijst van Haeck. Een overzicht van de hulpverlening aan geallieerde bemanningsleden en ontsnapte krijgsgevangenen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog (Hardenberg 2017), page 189 and 286
* National Archives, Washington, NAID: 286682184

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