Personnel

CREW



2nd Lt William F.Frazier                  P  CPT 25/12/44  Kaiserlauntern

2nd Lt Andrew J.Stephens,Jr.        CP  CPT 25/12/44  Kaiserlauntern

2nd Lt Walter P.Kliniksowski         NAV  CPT 09/04/45  Munich          Became a Lead Navigator

2nd Lt Owen E.J. Larson      BOM/NAV  CPT 25/12/44  Kaiserlauntern          sn#0-768817

 S/Sgt Joe W.Clark                   TTE   CPT 25/12/44  Kaiserlauntern

   Sgt Thomas P.Smith              ROG  CPT 24/12/44  Kaiserlauntern

   Sgt Nick A.DeLuca                 BTG  CPT 24/12/44  Kaiserlauntern

   Sgt Francis F.Healy                   WG  CPT 25/12/44  Kaiserlauntern

   Sgt Seymour Myers                 WG  Removed from crew to reduce to 9 men and given Ground job.

   Sgt Harold E.Heid                     TG  Removed from crew"AS result of an accident", Heid was sent home towards the end of his tour.



349th Sqdn.  Crew,as above,joined the 100th Group about the last week of July 1944. 

Crew flew at least 8 missions in "Once In' A While"



A letter from A.J.Stephens (April 1984) says that  Klinikowski,after about ten missions,was made a lead 

navigator and Lt.Larson became the crew navigator. At that time,S/Sgt George H. Dudley became 

the crew togglier. He was from the crew of T.H.Kemp.



Of Heid's replacement on the crew, Stephens has this to say;  . . ."The only thing I can remember 

about the man (don't even recall his name) is that he flew his very first mission as our tail

gunner. That happened to be the day we had a malfunction in the oleo strut in our right gear on 

take off. We left the runway and went barrelling out across the field through the mud and the 

crud with 2780 gallons (topped off) and eight 1000 pound GPs. He got so excited he bailed out in 

the mud while we were still slipping and sliding and cutting all kind of fancy didos. We never 

would have found him if someone hadn't seen the mud wiggling. Then he was unzipped,the mud shot 

out like his clothes had been filled with a grease gun."





Missions of 1st Lt Owen E.J. Larson (mpf 2001)



1. 11/08/44 Villacoublay     A/C "Once In A While"

2. 13/08/44 Nantes

3. 14/08/44 Ludwigshaven

4. 24/08/44 Ruhland

5. 25/08/44 Politz

6. 26/08/44 Brest

7. 27/08/44 BERLIN

8.  1/09/44  Mainz

9.  3/09/44  Brest

10.  5/09/44  Stuttgart

11. 13/09/44 Sindelfinger

12. 18/09/44 Warsaw (Second Russian Shuttle)

13. 19/09/44 Szolnok

14. 25/09/44 Ludwigshaven

15. 27/09/44 Mainz

16.  2/10/44  Kassel

17.  3/10/44  Nurnburg

18.  5/10/44  Handorf

19.  6/10/44  BERLIN

20.  7/10/44  Bohlen

21. 12/10/44 Bremen

22. 17/10/44 Cologne

23. 22/10/44 Munster

24.  5/11/44  Ludwigshaven

25.  9/11/44  Saarbrucken

26. 10/11/44 Mainz

27. 21/11/44 Osnabruck

28. 26/11/44 Hamm

29. 29/11/44 Hamm

30. 30/11/44 Merseburg

31.   2/12/44 Coblenz

32. 12/12/44 Coblenz

33. 18/12/44 Mainz

34. 24/12/44 Biblis

35. 25/12/44 Kaiserlautern

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