Een Boeing B17 Flying Fortress (serienr. D237796-T) is neergestort op het land van Cor Kroon langs de Ringweg (inlaagpolder)
dd 21-02-1944
http://www.100thbg.org/mainpages/crews/crews5/fletcher.htm
This aircraft was assigned to the 100th Bomb Group - 350th Bomb Squadron and crash-landed after losing three engines. The aircraft came down near Spaarndam, (Five miles north east of Amsterdam) The Netherlands at 1449 on 21 February 1944 while returning from a bombing mission against Brunswick GR. The pilot was Lt. William Fletcher who, at the request of the crew, crash-landed the aircraft rather than having the crew bail out! None of the airmen were injured. The ten crewmen were taken prisoner and were held in various Stalag Luft camps until released by the Allies.