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- The Rüsselsheim massacre was a war crime that involved the lynching and killing of six American airmen by townspeople of Rüsselsheim during World War II. The incident happened on August 26, 1944, two days after a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber of the United States Army Air Forces was shot down by heavy anti-aircraft fire over Hanover. Nine crew members (Sergeant William A. Dumont, Belly Gunner; Sergeant Sidney Eugene Brown, Tail Gunner; Sergeant Elmore L. Austin, Left Waist Gunner; Sergeant William A. Adams, Nose Gunner; Staff Sergeant Thomas D. Williams Jr., Radio Operator; Staff Sergeant Forrest W. Brininstool, Engineer; Flight Officer Haigus Tufenkjian, Navigator and Bombardier; Second Lieutenant John N. Sekul, Co-Pilot and Second Lieutenant Norman J. Rogers, Jr., Pilot) of the aircraft parachuted to the ground, where they were captured and held by German Luftwaffe personnel. Unable to transfer the downed aircrewmen to a prisoner-of-war camp due to the train tracks being heavily damaged by bombing the night before, they forced the Americans to march through the devastated town of Rüsselsheim to catch another train. The townspeople, already angered by damage caused to their town by a Canadian bombing raid the previous night on the Opel automobile factory, which was manufacturing airplane parts during the war, started attacking the unarmed crew members with rocks, hammers, sticks, and shovels, which resulted in the deaths of six of them. (en)
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- The Rüsselsheim massacre was a war crime that involved the lynching and killing of six American airmen by townspeople of Rüsselsheim during World War II. The incident happened on August 26, 1944, two days after a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber of the United States Army Air Forces was shot down by heavy anti-aircraft fire over Hanover. Nine crew members (Sergeant William A. Dumont, Belly Gunner; Sergeant Sidney Eugene Brown, Tail Gunner; Sergeant Elmore L. Austin, Left Waist Gunner; Sergeant William A. Adams, Nose Gunner; Staff Sergeant Thomas D. Williams Jr., Radio Operator; Staff Sergeant Forrest W. Brininstool, Engineer; Flight Officer Haigus Tufenkjian, Navigator and Bombardier; Second Lieutenant John N. Sekul, Co-Pilot and Second Lieutenant Norman J. Rogers, Jr., Pilot) of the airc (en)
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