Personnel

CREW



2ND LT DELBERT L .THOMPSON       P CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

2ND LT ALBERT A. KNEISS             CP CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

2ND LT LEO R. KIMBALL              NAV CPT COMPLETED TOUR WITH LT GERALD BROWN CREW "BROWN'S CLOWNS"

2ND LT HAROLD A. SMITH          BOM NOC (flew at least one mission with Lt Ellison Crew)

S/SGT GEORGE A. RANDOM         ROG CPT 12 MAR 45 SWINEMUNDE

S/SGT JOHN P. LEVENDUSKY       TTE CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

SGT ROBERT J. SOUHRADA          BTG CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

SGT FRED B. FISCHER                  WG CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

SGT ROY L. BECK                        WG CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN (TOOK OVER TG POSITION)

SGT VINCE M. BOWLIN                 TG NOC   TAKEN OFF CREW TO REDUCE TO 9 MEN



351ST SQDN..  CREW JOINED THE 100TH ON 02 AUG 1944.. ON 16 OCT 44 THIS CREW, WITH SOME CHANGES, WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE 349TH.  This Crew flew' RAMP TRAMP' 



LT TONY CONIGLIO, A NAVIGATOR, WAS ASSIGNED TO THIS CREW LATE IN 1944, REPLACING LT KIMBALL WHO WENT TO THE G. BROWN CREW..jb



PARTIAL MISSION LIST FOR LT THOMPSON CREW: FROM OPPS AND Lt Kneiss log book



        Date       Aircraft Nbr Target

1.     8/15/1944 31767        VENLO

2.     8/24/1944 6295          RUHLAND (OIL)

3.     8/25/1944 6295          POLITZ (OIL)

4.     8/26/1944 6295          BREST

5.     8/30/1944 6295          BREMEN

6.     9/10/1944 38124        NURNBURG

7.     9/25/1944 38124        LUDWIGSHAVEN

8.     9/27/1944 37815        MAINZ

9.   10/02/1944                    KASSEL

10. 10/03/1944                    LUDWIGBURG, ILLESHEIM, NURNBURG PFF

11. 10/04/1944                    HANDORF, (NEAR MUNSTER)

12. 10/26/1944                    HANOVER

13. 11/16/1944                    AACHEN AREA, GROUND SUPPORT

14. 11/21/1944                    MERSEBURG

15. 12/02/1944                    KOBLENZ

16. 12/05/1944                    BERLIN

17. 12/24/1944                    BIBLIS, BABENHAUSEN, KAISERLAUTERN

18. 01/06/1945                    LUDWIGSHAVEN

19. 01/10/1945                    COLOGNE (BOMB DUMP BLEW UP)

20. 01/14/1945                    DERBEN  (FIGHTER ATTACK)

21. 01/20/1945                    HEILBRONN

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33.3/12/1945                        SWINEMUNDE

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35. 03/24/1945                     STEENWIJK/HAVELTE



COLDEST MISSION: -67 DEGREES AT 30,000ft.



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CREW

          BROWN'S CLOWNS



  Lt Gerald Brown           P CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

  Lt Arthur L. Jacobsen CP POW 3/2/45 BERLIN         (With crew of  J..P. Ernst)

  Lt Ralph W. Bayer    NAV KIA 10/1/45 COLOGNE     (With crew of J.J. Dodrill)

  Lt Joseph J. Dye     BOM CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND  (With crew of T. Hughes)

 Sgt Gifford D. Vieth  ROG CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

 Sgt Walter R. Peters TTE CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

 Cpl Roland L. Douglas BTG POW 31/12/44HAMBURG (With crew of C.M. William)

 Cpl Wayne E. Page     WG CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

 Cpl Clarence S. Kellogg TG CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND



351st Sqdn.  Crew appears on Crew Roster of 4/8/44 as above.  See S.O.C. 

P. 95.  Crew joined 100th Group on 25/7/44.     



Lt Ralph Bayer is memorialized on the WALL OF THE MISSING at Cambridge. 

Letter from G. Brown (30/4/84) Jacobsen died of cancer 1981 Seattle.  

Ralph Bayer left the crew in late 1944..  Went to J.J. Dodrill crew. He was replaced on the Crew by  LT KIMBALL from Lt D.L. Thompson Crew 

Joe Dye left the crew Sept/Oct 1944 and finished his tour with Lt Tom Hughes Crew.  

Dye replaced by William Titley, from the crew of O.C. Everltt, who CPT 29/1/45. 

Gifford Vieth now (1984) a prominent attorney in Washington, D.C. 

Roland Douglas left crew in Aug 1944 when it became a lead crew and no longer had a BTG position. 

 



Lt. Erwin A. Lentz assigned to crew as Mickey Operator and CT.



MISSIONS FLOWN by Lt Kimball with "BROWN'S CLOWNS"



1/21/45  Mannheim

1/28/45  Duisburg

1/29/45 Kassel

2/17/45  Frankfurt

2/21/45  Nurnburg

2/23/45  Treuchtlingen

3/3/45    Brunswick

3/10/45  Dortmund







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From: Jeff Kimball 

To: xr_crew@yahoo.com 

Cc: goodman.cindy@gmail.com 

Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:31 AM

Subject: Splasher Six TAPS



Dear Mr. O’Leary : My father Captain Leo R. Kimball( known most of his life as L.  Robert Kimball) passed away January 11th 2013. He served as a lead navigator for the 100th BG and flew 24 missions out of Thorpe Abbotts    Field . He was the recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with three Oak Clusters and the Croix de Guerre ( France‘s highest military award). He also served as a Major in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the Korean War. He founded his own Consulting Engineering business in 1953 and under his leadership grew it to be a 16 office ,600 employee enterprise. He is survived by his wife of 66 years Mary Louise Kimball ,nine children, twenty six grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. He was a great example of the heroes of the Greatest Generation.





Respectfully submitted ,



R. Jeffrey Kimball



Son





The Tribune-Democrat



EBENSBURG — KIMBALL – L. Robert, 89, Ebensburg, passed away Jan. 11, 2013, at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center.  Born March 6, 1923, in Ebensburg,  son of the late Leo C. and Ursula (Myers) Kimball.  The last surviving member of his immediate family, he is preceded in death by his brothers, John R. and William Kimball, and his sister, Kathryn J. “Susie” Dandrea- Long.  A humble man of accomplishment, he often said that his family was his best accomplishment.  He will be sadly missed by the love of his life, his wife, Mary Louise (McNelis) Kimball, to whom he was married almost 66 years; children, John (Sheila) Kimball; Ann (Csaba) Balazs;  Kitty Kimball Gleason; R. Jeffrey (Debbi) Kimball; Susie (Leo) McCafferty; Sandy (Thomas) Giotto; Patty (Jeff) Kendall; Greta (Art) Rooney; and Mary Jo (Andy) Hopton.  Also survived by 26 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.  Mr. Kimball retired in 2011 as president/CEO of L. Robert Kimball and Associates, the company he founded in 1953.  He started his career in Ebensburg as a two-person surveying and civil engineering firm and grew it to its present status as an employer of as many as 600 employees and 16 offices.  A graduate and recipient of the Distinquished Alumnus Award at Pennsylvania State University and a registered engineer in seven states, Mr. Kimball also was a highly decorated war hero, having served as an Air Force captain in World War II.  The recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross,  the Air Medal with three Oak Clusters and the Croiz de Guerre (France’s highest military award).  He also served as a major in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the Korean War.  Mr. Kimball had been awarded a myriad of philanthropic, civic, professional and social awards and held memberships in many civic organizations.  He also was an inspired artist, having painted many family portraits and landscapes of his beautiful second home “Klein Immergrun,” which was often the site of many creative endeavors and family celebrations.  Member of Holy Name Roman Catholic Church, where a funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, the Rev. Msgr. Arnold L. Gaus, celebrant.  Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Askew-Houser Funeral Homes Inc., Ebensburg, and from 10 a.m. until time of funeral Mass at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Name Church.  Entombment at Holy Name Mausoleum.  In lieu of other memorials, donations may be made in Bob’s memory to the charity of your choice. 



    "We Will Never Forget"

 

 

Take care,

Rich Shandor

AFEES Membership