Undocumented WW2 Statistics
Aircraft Production (all types) 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 US 2141 6086 19433 47816 85898 96318 46001 BRIT 7940 15049 20094 23672 26263 26461 12070 RUSS 10382 10565 15737 25436 34900 40300 20900 GER 8295 10826 12401 15409 24807 40593 7540 JAPN 4467 4768 5088 8861 16693 28180 8263 Military Aircraft Losses (1939-1945) […]
Lazzari Crew History
Laurence J. Lazzari Crew History Written for the most part by G. G. GreenwoodThe Laurence J. Lazzari Crew 351st Bomb Squadron. 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force 26 September 1944 Through 23 October 1945 The initial organization of the crew occurred at Lincoln Army Air Field, Lincoln, Nebraska on 26 September 1944, per Special Order […]
View from the Tail
by Bruce E. Alshouse 100th BG Photo Archives After the 24 September 1943 combat mission was canceled, we were told we were going on an afternoon practice mission to drop practice bombs over the North Sea. We did not even have guns to put in our ships. We took off thinking we were going […]
Carl Thorkelson Flight Crew
Carl Thorkelson – World War II Flight Crew by Jennifer Armstrong Chicago Daily Herald Staff Writer In 1944, fate brought nine men together at an Army Air Base in Rapid City, S.D., to form a B-17 flight crew that would fly 24 combat missions over Germany in World War II. Fifty years later, five of them […]
Raynor and Stanford Letter
Letters from Bob Raynor and Raney Stanford to Howard Cohen 2ND LT JOSEPH A. DROTTAR P FEH 2ND LT ROBERT P. RAYNOR CP FEH F/O RANEY B. STANFORD NAV FEH 2ND LT GEORGE A. SENIOR BOM FEH CPL RAYMOND K. SUTTON ROG FEH CPL ISADORE COHEN TTE FEH CPL PAUL L. SANXHEZ BTG FEH SGT […]
Valesh Memo From W. A. Carleton
CAPT BILL CARLETON’S MAINT RECORDS FOR A/C FLOWN BY LT F.E. “BIG FRANK” VALESH NOV 43, 42-31035: CRASHED ON TAKE-OFF INTO DRAPPERS BARN-NO ONE HURT-ONE BULL KILLED-AIRCRAFT TOTALED. DEC 43, 42-39867: CRASH LANDED WITH SEVERE BATTLE DAMAGE AT AN R.A.F. FIGHTER STRIP AT LYMPE, KENT , ENGLAND JAN 44, 42-3271: CRASH LANDED WITH BATTLE DAMAGE […]
Jack Kidd- World War II
World War II by Jack Kidd 100th BG Photo Archives After training was completed, our 48 aircraft and crews headed across the Atlantic in May, 1943. On our arrival at our new base at Thorpe Abbots in East Anglia, England it was then Major Kidd, the new Group Operations Officer, under our third Group Commander. […]
Soden at Ruhland- 11 Sep 44
Warren L. Soden at Ruhland, 11 Sep 44 Warren L. Soden 1324 Andover Rd. Richmond, VA 23229 Jaromir Kohout SLET Tesinska 3 31200 Plzen Czech Republic At briefing prior to the Ruhland mission on 9/11/44 the 100th Bomb Group was informed that we would encounter strong enemy fighter opposition, however, we would have heavy fighter […]
100th Aircraft Lost in Action – Page 3
100th Aircraft Lost in Action – Page 3 by James R. Brown 01 | 02 | 03 Loss Pilot Date Sqdn. MACR A/C # A/C Name Status 117 Lawrence E. Townsend 27/7/44 349th 7837 42-102416 Lady Luck POW 118 Floyd H. Mason 28/7/44 349th 7880 42-97555 Island F for Fox POW 119 Albert S. Spear 28/7/44 350th […]
100th Aircraft Lost in Action – Page 2
100th Aircraft Lost in Action – Page 2 by James R. Brown 01 | 02 | 03 Loss Pilot Date Sqdn. MACR A/C # A/C Name Status 62 Robert M. Lohof 3/3/1944 349th 3022 42-31970 — POW 63 John G. Gossage 3/3/1944 349th 3025 42-38017 — POW 64 Robert D. Vollmer 3/3/1944 349th 3029 42-39817 […]