Personnel

CREW



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. SANCHEZ       BTG FEH

    SGT FRANK W. BUERGER    WG FEH

    CPL EARL I. SUNSTROM       TG FEH



351st Sqdn..  Crew, as above, joined 100th on 3 Apr 1945





Mike...YES, I have a few for The Drottar crew,who had some bad luck and flew an aircraft 43-39424  EP-B my dads crew (1st Lt. W.Griswold Smith) flew to Austria to Paris on a DP Ferry Mission,May 19,1945…



DROTTAR COMBAT MISSIONS:  

14 APRIL 1945 ROYAN   C-Sqdn  DROTTAR MAFKING    047  O   Hardstand # 12, Aircraft # 42-238047  EP-O  "FEVER BEAVER"  one of the last (if not THEE last) of it's 125 Combat Missions..…

15 APRIL,1945 ROYAN   D-Sqdn  DROTTAR   KIDMEAT  015  N,  Hardstand # 23 ...…

16 APRIL,1945 ROYAN



PRACTICE MISSION:   

13  APRIL,1945   424  B  Hardstand # 9,Aircraft # 43-39442  EP-B, 



FERRY MISSION ACCIDENT:

 15 MAY,1945  DROTTAR  126   D   HORSCHING, Austria to pickup 30 French from German Prison Camp collapsed a landing gear upon landing...END of The LATEST  RUMOR  Aircraft 42-97126 EP-D..Aircraft pulled off the runway by hitching to a TANK...A/C salvaged May 25,1945  ....That's all I have on DROTTAR, not listed on any other ferry missions in May and June,or 3 food drop missions though I'm missing one of those.....Hope it helps you!      Jack O'Leary





Letter to Howard Cohen son of Isadore Cohen of the 351st Sqdn.



Oct 31, 1994

Howard Cohen

P.O. Box 397

Capitola, CA 95010-0397



Dear Howard;



I received a copy of the letter sent to you from Charlie Beck of the 100th. Although your Dad and I were on the same 

crew for a short period of time, I can give your what I recall. Our crew was formed at Biggs Field, in El Paso, Texas 

about October 1944. We arrived at Thorpe Abbotts in England March 15, 1945 and after more training and 

familiarization joined the 351st Squadron April 3, 1945. As hostilities were winding down, our vast war experience 

consisted of three missions to Royan, France to  bomb submarine pens.



After the war ended in Europe in May, only Joe (JOSEPH A. DROTTAR), Raney (RANEY B. STANFORD) and my self (ROBERT P. RAYNOR) remained together. Your Dad and the rest of the crew went their separate ways. I lost track of him after that.



Sometime in late 1960 I visited with Izz (ISADORE COHEN) and his wife for a short time In Pittsburgh, Squirrel HIll 

I believe.



Enclosed is a small snapshot taken in England; Top row: Paul (PAUL L. SANXHEZ), Earl (EARL I. SUNSTROM), Raney (RANEY B. STANFORD), myself (ROBERT P. RAYNOR),  and Joe (JOSEPH A. DROTTAR), left to right. Bottom row; George (GEORGE A. SENIOR),  Frank (FRANK W. BUERGER),  Ray (RAYMOND K. SUTTON)  and Izz 

( ISADORE COHEN),  left to right.   

Also enclosed is a negative of your Dad in our B-17. Hope this will be of interest to you.



Best Regards,

Bob Raynor



P.S. Your Dad was not aboard when we crash landed at Horshing in Linz, Austria.