Murdered by Gespato

J Peter Horne
Shortly after hitting the target, the B-24 was hit by flak and ran short of fuel. The entire crew bailed out over Uddel, Gelderland, The Netherlands.

Bill Moore was capture by the Dutch Underground and after being moved around in Apeldoorn, he was eventually captured by the Germans in October 1944. Finally Bill Moore was executed at the King William III Barracks, Apeldoorn, December 2nd 1944.
29 April 1944 was the day the liberator of Bill F Moore got shot at. The plain could still fly but would not reach England. The crew jumped out of the plaine, the plaine crashed on a farm at the Elspeterweg in Uddel. The nineteen year old Gemmigje Mulder died because of that crash. The crew landed safely on the ground and hide themselfs in the woods. They got noticed by a wild hunter and he contacted the resistance. On bikes the people of the resistance drove them to hiding place from family Kliest on the Valkenberglaan 23. On 1 October they left this hiding place in fear of treason. The moved to a house in the parcs, but on the same day there was a German raid on that hiding place. Four of them were hiding at that moment accept for Bill and he got arrested. There was a second raid on the house but George Paulk, Floyd Rexdale, David Smith and John low were able to escape the house. Bill was moved to the Willem III Kazerne were the SD interrogate him to find out were the other four were and to tell were he has been hiding. He kept his mouth shut and because of that he was executed on 2 December 1944.

Source:
WWW.ADOPTIEGRAVEN-DATABASE.nl


1st.Lt. Moore was reunited with 1st.Lt. Low Jr. by the Dutch resistance and with their help evaded capture for about 6 months. On the 1st October 1944 the place where they were hiding “see (6)”, was raided by the Germans. 1st.Lt. Moore was captured and taken to the Willem III Kazerne (barracks) in Apeldoorn. Under interrogation he refused to give up the names of the others or who helped him. 1st.Lt. Moore along with twenty men from the Dutch resistance were executed by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) on the 2nd December 1944.

A Eugene Dircks, a Belgium member of the SD when questioned described how 1st.Lt. Moore faced his executioners telling them he was a PoW and would not submit to them. Two soldiers dragged him to his execution, but he continued to resist their efforts until he was fatally wounded by Oberleutnant Adolf Glück, a Luftwaffe officer, who shot him several times in the back with his automatic pistol. His murder and that of 12 Dutchmen was an act of retribution for a failed attempt to secure the release of Dutch resistance members.

Glück was brought to trial in Arnhem, Holland on 3rd March 1950 for the executions and was sentenced to a 3-year jail term. He was deported to Germany on the 25th May 1951.

Source:

http://aircrewremembered.com/moore-bill.html