Personnel

CREW



2nd Lt Donald N.Ellison           P  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

2nd Lt Wiley Smith Jr.          CP  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

 F/0 Frank Vandergriff Jr     NAV  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

2nd Lt Albert E. Richmond  BOM  CPT  9/3/45   FRANKFURT    (only flew first 3 missions with this Crew)

S/Sgt Robert W. Wolf        ROG  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

S/Sgt Horace O.Liles          TTE  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN (name spelled Lyles in 351st BS  Squadron history)

 Sgt Robert L.Henry           BTG  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

 Sgt Harold L.Osban            WG  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

 Pvt Jack Jefferson              WG NOC  taken off crew to reduce to 9 men

 Sgt David E.Davis                TG CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN



351st Sqdn..this crew assigned to the 100th July 1944

Above Crew appears on roster 13/9/44 as crew #56/58 with a Lt Stanley W Yates from Lt Stevenson Crew as Bombardier.   On 3/9/44 Lt Harold .A. Smith from Lt Thompson Crew  is riding as Bomb. in place of Lt Yates.  On 11/8/44 Lt Albert E.Richmond is the BOM.

Lt Stanley W.Yates(Bom, CPT 7/1/45- Cologne from Lt Stevenson Crew) flew some missions with this Crew.  



Known Missions of 2nd Lt Donald Ellison Crew: (incomplete…mpf)



#     DATE         TARGET                           A/C # and NAME



1.   11/8/44    VILLACOUBLAY                   42-32530    QUITTIN' TIME

2.   14/8/44    LUDWIGSHAVEN                 42-31767    OUR GAL SAL

3.   25/8/44    POLITZ                              42-107233  HUMPTY DUMPTY

4.   26/8/44    BREST                               42-31066    DIXIE BABY

5.   30/8/44    BREMEN                             42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME

6.     3/9/44    BREST                               42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME

7.     5/9/44    STUTTGART                       42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME

8.   11/9/44    RUHLAND                           42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME 

9.   12/9/44    MAGDEBURG                       42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME

10. 13/9/44    SINDELFINGEN                     42-97126   THE LATEST RUMOR

11. 18/9/44    WARSAW                            42-31412   MASON AND DIXON  (2nd Russian Shuttle Mission)

12. 19/9/44    SZOLNOK (HUNGARY)           42-31412   MASON AND DIXON  (aircraft received major flak damage to wing spar) 

13. 28/9/44    MERSEBURG                         42-32530   QUITTIN' TIME





TAPS

DONALD N. ELLISON,80

BORN 11 AUGUST 1918

DIED 20 JANUARY,1999

LAST RESIDENCE ADDRESS   85939 ( TAYLOR,NAVAJO,ARIZONA)

SS #  527-03-7487   ISSUED  ARIZONA

 

ENLISTMENT RECORD, N/A

DONALD N. ELLISON

Serial # 19106176

PLACE OF ENLISTMENT, PHOENIX,AZ

DATE OF ENLISTMENT, 7/15/42

PVT, AIR CORPS

1 YEAR COLLEGE

CURRENT OCCUPATION, SHEET METAL WORKER

MARRIED

RESERVES

YEAR OF BIRTH, 1918

RESIDENCE COUNTY, GILA