Personnel

CREW



2ND LT HARVEY J. ROWLAND         P  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ        SN:O-753249

2ND LT ROBERT M. HESS              CP  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ        SN:O-761814

2ND LT ALAN B. GOLDBERG        NAV  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ        SN:O-710257

2ND LT EDWARD T. KEARNEY    BOM  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ         SN:O-759941                                                                                         TAPS: 29 OCT 1990

SGT JOHN F. BRODY                 TTE  NOC                                 SN:37340563 (Flies 6 Missions with Crew and is replaced by Sgt Parsons)

T/SGT DANIEL J. O'CONNELL     ROG  NOC                                 SN:32804242  (Flies 26 Missions with Crew)                                                TAPS: 31 DEC 1984

SGT GARNET W. PARSONS        BTG  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ          SN:37500523  (flew 8 missions as BTG then replaced Sgt Brody as TTE for remainder of tour) 

SGT JOSEPH R. LEONE              RWG  NOC                                SN:32865123  (flew only one mission with this Crew)                                   TAPS: 14 JAN 1976 

SGT ORVILLE A. MARKS             LWG  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ         SN:32832797  (took over RWG on on 6/7/44)  

SGT THOMAS R. PUCKETT          TG  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ          SN:39559282



418TH SQDN.. CREW, AS ABOVE, JOINED THE 100TH ON 30 MAY 1944. 

According to Lt Rowlands questionaire 10/3/00, S/Sgt William Ake was not on crew but he is listed in opps as flying with this crew on many missions.(mpf)



"Lt Rowland enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corp and was sent to Wheeler Field, Hawaii.  While waiting to get into aviation mechanics school, Pearl Harbor happened.  I happened to be about two hundred yards from where the first bomb was dropped.  After Dec 7, 1941, I applied and was accepted for Aviation Cadet Program.  In October 1942, I was returned to the States to begin schooling at Santa Ana, California.  Schooling continued at Ft Stockton, TX-Pecos, TX & Marfa TX where I received my wings on commission as a Second LT on August 31, 1943.  Then was sent to Hobbs New Mexico to Start training as first pilot in B-17.  Was sent to Salt Lake City Utah after completion of school to pick up my crew and head to Alexandria, Louisiana for more training.  In April of 1944, we picked up our B-17G at Kearney Nebraska and flew to England" (Harvey Rowland 10/3/00 by mpf)



LIST OF MISSIONS FOR FIRST LT HARVEY J. ROWLAND (mpf 10/3/00)



1. 6/06/44  D-Day-French Coast

2. 7/06/44  Nantes

3. 8/06/44  Tours

4. 11/6/44  Berck sur Mur

5. 18/6/44  Ostermoor

6. 20/6/44  Fallersleben

7. 21/6/44  BERLIN 

8. 22/6/44  Paris

9. 29/6/44  Bohlen

10. 7/07/44  Bohlen

11. 8/07/44  Clamecy

12. 11/7/44  Munich

13. 12/7/44  Munich

14. 13/7/44  Munich

15. 14/7/44  Marquies Supply Drop

16. 17/7/44  Pas De Calai V-1 Rocket sites (No Ball)

17. 18/7/44  Kiel

18. 19/7/44  Schweinfurt

19. 20/7/44  Merseburg

20. 24/7/44  St Lo

21. 25/7/44  St Lo

22. 28/7/44  Merseburg

23. 29/7/44  Merseburg

24. 2/08/44  La Fere

25. 3/08/44  Troyes

26. 4/08/44  Hamburg

27. 5/08/44  Magdeburg

28. 6/08/44  BERLIN

29. 24/8/44  Ruhland

30. 25/8/44  Politz

31. 26/8/44  Brest

32. 30/8/44  Bremen

33. 3/09/44  Brest

34. 5/09/44  Stuttgart

35. 8/09/44  Mainz