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Personnel

Sgt

Gordon D. GRIFFITH

Assigned to the 100th Bombardment Group
Location:
Unit: 350th Bombardment Squadron
Rank:
Position: Waist Gunner
Beginning Date of 100th Service: Unknown
Time of Service at Thorpe Abbotts: Unknown - Unknown

Additional 100th Service Notes

Status: XFR
Comments: 7 OCT 43 XFR TO 482ND BOMB GROUP (PATHFINDERS)

Media Articles

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Media ItemTypePageVolume/IssueBroadcast SourceTimeDescriptionFile
Gordon Griffith, Bernard DeMarco, Benjamin Barr part 1PrintMount Vernon Argus Oct 19 194312:00 am
Gordon Griffith, part 2PrintMount Vernon Argus Oct 19 194312:00 am

Comments and Notes

Memo 1:
CREW

Note on Menzie: was with 350th at the time of transfer
On 7/10/43 Special Orders #21 (Hdq. 3rd Bomber Division) the following crew was
transferred from the 100th Bomb. Gp To the 482nd Bomb.Gp for Pathfinder training.
Crew departed Thorpe Abbotts on 10/10/43 for Alconbury to join the 482 Bomb Group (Pathfinders)

1st Lt Kenneth I.Menzie P (on Aug 17, 1943, copilot on Capt. Norman Scott Crew, manned gun in the nose)
* 2nd Lt Kenneth O. Blair CP
2nd Lt Vanden J.Willey NAV
* Capt Norris G.Norman BOM
Sgt Jerry (nmi)Korman ROG
* T/Sgt James E.Parks TTE
* Sgt Blazier Paddy TG
* Sgt Lewis D.Miller BTG
Sgt Gordon D.Griffith WG
* Sgt Britton I.Smith WG

Those with Asterisks are members of the original crew of Norman H.Scott. According to Norris Norman,these men all CPT with the Pathfinders. Scott and Strout were transferred to Bovingdon, to indoctrinate replacement crews.

Crew List

1st Crew List

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Rank Name Pos Status
LT MENZIE, Kenneth I. CP/P CPT
LT WILLEY, Vanden J. NAV XFR
Sgt GRIFFITH, Gordon D. WG XFR