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S/SGT  Warren G. LUSH

UNIT: 351st BOMB Sqdn POSITION: TG
SERIAL #: 37461810 STATUS: EVA
MACR: 00645 CR: 00645

Comments1: 15 SEP 43 PARIS (ATLANTA, NB) (FLAK)

COMMENTS & NOTES

MEMO 1:

CREW

 2nd Lt John T.Griffin              P CPT
 2nd Lt Elbert W.Johnson        CP WIA  8 Oct 43-Bremen (transferred to non combat job after this mission)
 2nd Lt Thomas R.Kizak        NAV  CPT
 2nd Lt Edward L.Dunlap       BOM  CPT 
 T/Sgt Raymond M.Harjo      TTE  WIA  (Purple Heart awarded for  0ct. 8, 1943, returned to States)
 T/Sgt Roy O.Howell           ROG CPT
 S/Sgt Pascal A.Delpriorre   BTG  CPT 
 S/Sgt Bernard G.Siegel       WG CPT 
 S/Sgt Sldney L.Nicholas      WG NOC
 S/Sgt Warren G.Lush          TG EVADEE (15/9/43 with crew of A.M.Vetter)  Paris 

351st Sqdn. This crew, as above, joined the 100th Group on 12/9/43. 
See photo of crew on p.212 of "CONTRAILS". Also see p.21/23 SOC .

Lt. Kizak appears on crew of R.V.Monrad on 8/3/44.

Wrote J.T.Griffin 20/3/84 and received reply 14/6/84. "  Nicholas did not complete tour,I do not know what happened to him. Harjo was returned to USA. Johnson was replaced on crew by Lt.Earl Williams and completed tour. Replacements on this crew were Don L.Pilgrim -WIA. Arthur L. Olson,and A. (Alfred??) Hunt who completed their tours. There positions not definetly but believe Pilgrim a TG and Hunt & Olson WGs.

2nd Lt. John T. Griffin with the 351st Sqdn. The plane was named the "Goin Jessies". My father Sgt. Arthur L. Olson flew with this crew October 1943 to July 5, 1944. He completed 28 Missions. 

Partial list of Missions Flown by Lt John Griffin Crew (from Frank Murphy book Luck of the Draw" mpf 2003)

1.   15/09/43   PARIS                           A/C 42-30087  "SHACK RAT"
2.   16/09/43   BORDEAUX/MERIGNAC    A/C 42-30358  "PHARTZAC" 
3.   23/09/43   VANNES                       A/C 42-30796   "SUNNY II" 
4.   26/09/43   PARIS                          A/C  42-3474    "KING BEE"
5.   02/10/43   EMDEN                         A/C  42-30796 "SUNNY II"
6.   08/10/43   BREMEN                       A/C  42-30796  "SUNNY II"


Subj: RE: Lt Griffin Crew  
Date: 5/17/2003 11:12:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time 
From: KOlson@HILLSCA.ORG 
To: MPFaley@aol.com 
Sent from the Internet (Details) 
 
Michael:
 
I will speak with my Dad regarding your questions.  He did not talk about the war for many years and has opened up more during the last few.  He is celebrating his 90th birthday this August.  Dad was drafted from Minnesota where he grew up on a farm.  He was the only man out of about 30 from his area that was chosen to go Army Air Corps.  He attended gunnery school out of Nellis Air Force Base in Neveda I believe before he went overseas.  He states that he was one of two men from his specific class of gunnery mates that returned from Europe.  Do not know if this is correct.  He also said he was one of the older guys (29 years) on the plane.  I do know he took part in some of the first raids to hit Berlin.  He was also part of the group that participated in the "Shuttle" mission that bombed Germany on their way to Russia.  He said they then bombed Romainian oil fields and landed in Italy.  They then went from Italy back to England.  Dad said they awarded him three mission counts for this shuttle.  He also states that he was sent as a replacement crew and flew on some other planes but did most of his raids on the "Goin Jessies".  He confirmes the names and injuries of the crewmen listed.  Dad flew positions at Top Turret, Waist Gunner, and a couple of raids in the nose as a "toggler"?  He was at the airfield the day he left to watch the "Goin Jesses" land but it did not return!  He states that he spent another year after returning home assigned at Shunook Field teaching engineering mechanics (his plane stayed behind a few hours in Russia as they had to replace spark plugs in one of the engines).  Dad talks about Thorpes Abbott and how many of the bunks would be empty after raids and how they would get personal lockers together to send back to the states.  He says the weather was cold and foggy and how many missions were scrubbed or that our own aircraft would fly into one another as they were forming up to cross the channel.  He has also shared how cold it was at 35,000 feet having no windows on the side gun openings and the frostbite he would get.  He also talks about the P51 Mustangs with their extended fuel tanks and how vulnerable he felt when they would have to turn back to England.  I know you have heard many of the same stories.  I will talk with Dad and get this information in a better format to send to you.  Give me just a little time.  I will be joining the 100th foundation with my personal address.  It is easier for me to break mailing information down and present it to Dad since he has lost much of his reading sight.  I know that to this day his year with the 100th is probably one the most significant time periods in his life.  Do you know if any members of this crew are registered with the foundation?  I will talk to you soon and thank you for your timely response.  
 
Kim Olson


NOTE:

CREW

2ND LT ARTHUR M. VETTER              P EVADEE 15 SEP 43 PARIS  SN# 0-795862
2ND LT DONALD G. SMITH              CP EVADEE 15 SEP 43 PARIS  SN# 0-741943
2ND LT WENDELL K. McCONNAHA   NAV KILLED IN EVADING JAN 1944 SN# 0-734944
2ND LT JAMES G. BORMUTH         BOM EVADEE 15 SEP 43 PARIS  SN# 0-676542
T/SGT JOHN M. WAGNER             ROG EVADEE 15 SEP 43 PARIS  SN# 33237317
S/SGT EDWARD W. FONTAINE        BTG EVADEE 15 SEP 43 PARIS  SN# 31172594
S/SGT HOBART C. TRIGG             RWG EVADEE 15 SEP 43 PARIS  SN# 16073581
S/SGT WILLIAM D. EDWARDS       LWG POW  4 OCT 43    HANAU  SN# 19083107 (with Capt. Harold "Pinky" Helstrom Crew) 
S/SGT EDWARD M. DALY              TG EVADEE 15 SEP 43 PARIS    SN# 32560807 

350TH SQDN..CREW, AS ABOVE, JOINED THE 100TH ON 25 AUG 1943.  
THIS WAS THE FOURTH MISSION FOR THIS CREW, WITH THE RENAULT WORKS AT PARIS AS THE TARGET.

EYEWITNESS: "A/C 452 (42-3452 LN-Z..SEE MACR 645, MICRO-FICHE 213) WAS HIT IN THE #2 ENGINE AT 1900 BETWEEN THE IP AND THE PT AND THE RALLY POINT (RIGHT OVER PARIS). NO CHUTES, NO EAC, BELIEVE HE DROPPED HIS BOMBS.  LAST SEEN DROPPING BACK APPARENTLY UNDER CONTROL."  LT GROMLEY

ON 15 SEP 43 T/SGT ORVAL L. PARSONS WAS FLYING AS TTE, HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE LEG BEFORE BAILING OUT AND WAS TAKEN POW.  S/SGT WARREN G. LUSH WAS FLYING AS A REPLACEMENT FOR W.D. EDWARDS AND BECAME AN EVADEE. LUSH WAS FROM THE J.T. GRIFFIN CREW.  APPARENTLY McCONNAHA DIED OF EXPOSURE WHEN HE FELL FROM A CLIFF IN THE PYRENES AS HE WAS GOING INTO SPAIN.

"AT 1901 OVER LAGNY, RIGHT WING (VETTER) LOST ALTITIUDE.  #2 AND @3 ENGINES SMOKING. DISAPPEARED INTO CLOUDS"… CAPT DeMARCO

MISSIONS OF CREW:

 03/09/43    PARIS
 15/09/43    PARIS (SHOT DOWN)

MEMO 2:


			

             
            

         

         
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    TARGET:
			Paris
    DATE: 
			1943-09-15
     
  

  

    AIRCRAFT:
	(42-3452)
    CAUSE:
			FLAK
     
  



			


			

            
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Lt John T. Griffin Crew Stateside. 
Front row, kneeling, L-R: John T. Griffin, Elbert Johnson, Thomas R. Kizak  , Edward Dunlap
Rear row, standing,  L-R: Raymond Harjo, Bernard Siegel, Roy Howell, Pascal DelPiorre, Warren Lush, Sidney Nicholas

           
 

       
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