Personnel

CREW



2ND LT RONALD CUMMING         P CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

2ND LT JOHN J. WILLIAMSON   CP CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

2ND LT DELON C. GOODWIN   NAV CPT 28 SEP 44 MERSEBURG  sn# O-711391

2ND LT CHARLES G. SHIVELY  BOM CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

S/SGT LEROY DOYAL              ROG CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

S/SGT CLIFFORD W. BAER        TTE CPT 03 FEB 45 BERLIN

   SGT EMILE T. GIARD            TG CPT 28 SEP 44 MERSEBURG

   SGT WILLIAM C. WHEELER   WG CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

   SGT ISAAC GOLDEN            BTG CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ-translator on 1st Russian Shuttle

   SGT ALISTAIR A. YOUNG      WG WIA 19 SEP 44 SZOLNOK-Injured by flak, left in Foggia, Italy with 15thAF



351st Sqdn.. Crew joined the 100th on 29 May 1944 

Flew many missions in "OUR GAL SAL" 42-31767. This crew also flew the following A/C 43-37521-Skyway Chariot, 42-102598-Super Rabbit, 42-102416-Lady Luck, 42-31708-Skipper II during thier tour of duty.  On 2nd Russian Shuttle, Lt Cummings was forced to leave 337915 in Russia due to battle damage (hydraulics shot out).  Flew out in "Little Joe" 42-102586  from 96th Bomb Group, 339th BS, QJ-Z .  



Letter in 1982 from Ronald Cumming to Jim Brown, states John Williamson joined the Air Reserve after the war and was killed in a T-6 accident. Also states Alistair Young was wounded on a mission from Russia to Italy, Cumming himself re-entered the Air Force in 1951 and retired in 1969 as a Lt Colonel.





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>100th BOMB GROUP TAPS REPORT

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>Submitter's Name: Tim Mitros

>Submitter's Email: mchilly19@msn.com

>Submitter's Relationship: Nephew

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>Veteran's Name: Ronald Cumming

>Death Date: March 31, 2005

>Veteran's Unit: 351st

>Veteran's Position: Pilot

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>Family Contact Information: Tim Mitros

>1650 Manning Way

>Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919

>719-592-0638



Missions of 2nd Lt Delon C. Goodwin (mpf nov. 2000)



1.   6/6/44  D-Day

2.   7/6/44  Nantes

3.   8/6/44  Tours

4. 14/6/44  LeCulot

5. 18/6/44  Santes-Airfield

6. 20/6/44  Fallersleben

7.   7/7/44  Leipzig

8. 12/7/44  Munich

9. 13/7/44  Munich

10. 14/7/44  South France, Marquis supplies

11. 17/7/44  Auxerre

12. 18/7/44  Hemmingstadt

13. 20/7/44  Merseburg

14. 21/7/44  Regensburg

15. 25/7/44  St Lo ground support

16. 29/7/44  Merseburg

17. 31/7/44  Munich

18.   3/8/44  Troyes

19.   4/8/44  Hamburg

20.   6/8/44  BERLIN

21. 11/8/44  Villa Coubly/Paris

22. 25/8/44  Politz

23. 26/8/44  Brest

24. 30/8/44  Bremen

25.   3/9/44  Brest

26.   5/9/44  Stuttgart

27. 10/9/44  Nurnburg

28. 12/9/44  Magdeburg

29. 13/9/44  Sindelfingen

30. 18/9/44  Warsaw, Poland-Start of 2nd Russian Shuttle Mission

31. 19/9/44  Szolnok, Hungary

32. 25/9/44  Ludwigshaven

33. 26/9/44  Bremen

34. 27/9/44  Mainz

35. 28/9/44  Merseburg-flew this mission with the crew of Lt Donald Ellison





From: Jack O'Leary 

Subject: Ron Cumming crew info,Charles G.Shively,BOMB on crew

To: "Chris Shively" 

Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 6:08 AM





Hi Chris,

 

We have nothing in the database for Clifford Baer,the TTE...Isaac Golden.a WG...Alistair A. Young, the TG...

Ron Cumming died 3/31/05 and I just checked with social security and it looks like 

Emile T. Giard,the BTG died recently 

18 NOV,2010,

the other crew are deceased as noted in the TAPS section database. I just checked on 

Delon Goodwin since we were not aware or notified he died. 

SSDI has him Born 14 DEC,1923---Died 25 Sept,2005.

I am the website message board administrator so I'll post his TAPS listing on the website and include it in the next issue of SPLASHER SIX to the editor.

You might want to consider joining for a year just to get the four quarterly newsletters that run 25 pages or so. They are GREAT,it's cheap to join as well. We have a reunion planned for this year in Cleveland in Sept,2011. Check out the REUNIONS pages on the website for some past photos and details on them. Nothing like being around 100th BG veterans and their families at the reunions! 

 











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