Personnel

CREW



1st Lt Andrew J.Gorski            P    NOC   21 JUN 44 BASDORF-BERLIN (LWA by flak in leg) 

2nd Lt Kenneth L.Houghton   CP   POW  25 JUN 44 MAQUIS SUPPLY DROP ( as pilot of S.T.Major Crew)  

2nd Lt Ray E.Miller               NAV CPT    19 SEPT 44  SZOLNOK, HUNGARY  (with AUSTIN  DUNLAP PFF CREW)

2nd Lt Burton S.Fox            BOM CPT    19 SEPT 44  SZOLNOK, HUNGARY  (with AUSTIN  DUNLAP PFF CREW)

S/Sgt George Jones            TTE  NOC

Sgt Albert M.Caldwell           ROG CPT    3 JAN 45  FULDA

Sgt Joseph J.Parrilla             BTG NOC     Flew 14 missions with Lt Evans Crew

S/Sgt Oscar A.Compton        WG NOC 

Sgt John Rybak                    WG NOC

Sgt Daniel M.Cargile              TG  NOC  (flew with Lt Rice Crew, and went down with Lt Kincannon Crew, flew as WG)



418th Sqdn. This crew,as above,Joined the 100th Group on 9/3/44.  Crew flew Andy's Dandy's named after Capt. Andrew Gorski

Capt. Gorski went on to become 418th Assistant Operations Officer.  Lt Fox received two Purple Hearts, one due to enemy fighters.  



Letter from Ray Miller (April 1984)  We had not been a part of the group very long until Andy Gorski was 

moved into squadron ops.  Burt Fox had been a bombardier lnstructor and had gone through phase training 

twice.  He was a natural for lead crew and insisted that I be his navigator as we were a "team".  Gorski did 

not go to Pathfinders but did get some Command pilot time  (he got a flak wound in the leg while doing so). 

Burt & I teamed up with Austin Dunlap and completed our tour as , PFF crew. Kenneth Houghton got a crew of 

his own and was shot down but walked out.  It was in June 1944 and he has a good story about Gen.Patton and 

his staff.  I do not know the fate of the enlisted men of our original crew.



Mission Log for Ray E. Miller 



Date  Place      Position



3/27/44 Bordeaux, Fr.

3/38/44 Chateaudin  

4/08/44 Quackenbruck, Ger.

4/10/44 Rheims, Fr.

4/11/44 Rostock, Ger.

4/13/44 Augsburg, Ger.

4/27/44 Le Culot, Belgium

5/01/44 Sarreguemines, Fr. (On the German border)

5/27/44 Strasbourg, Fr. (On the German border) High Sqdn Lead

5/29/44 Leipzig, Ger.     High Sqdn Lead

6/06/44 Falaise, Fr. (D-Day)    High Sqdn Lead

6/08/44 Tours, Fr.     13 "C" Wing Lead

6/21/44 Basdorf, Ger. (Berlin)    HIgh Sqdn Lead

6/21/44 Paris, Fr.     High Group (Deputy Division)

7/04/44 Gein, Fr.     High Sqdn Lead

7/06/44 Fleury, Fr.     HIgh Group 

7/08/44 Le Lente, Fr.     13 "A" Wing Lead

7/11/44 Munich, Ger.     High Sqdn Lead

7/17/44 Dieppe, Fr. (No-Ball)    13 "A" Wing Lead

7/19/44 Schweinfurt, Ger.    HIgh Sqdn Lead

7/29/44 Merseburg, Ger.    HIgh Group Lead

8/02/44 La Fere, Fr.     13"A" Wing Lead

8/03/44 Troyles, Fr.     13 "B" WG/ 3rd Div Lead

8/04/44 Hamburg, Ger.     HIgh Group Lead

8/13/44 Dreaux-Mantes, Fr.    13 "B" Wing Lead

8/14/44 Ludwigshafen, Ger.    13 "B" Wing Lead

8/24/44 Ruhland, Ger.     13 "A" Wing Lead

8/25/44 Politz, Ger.     13 "B" Wing Lead

8/30/44 Bremen, Ger.     Dep. WG (490th)

9/01/44 Wiesbaden, Ger.    13 "B" Wing Lead

9/05/44 Stuttgart, Ger.     13 "B" Wing Lead

9/08/44 Mainz, Ger.     8th AF/ 3rd DIV/ 13 "A" WG

9/18/44 Warsaw, Poland    13 "B" Wing Lead

9/19/44 Szolnok, Hungary    Task Force/ 13 "B" Wing

9/22/44 Italy-England (No mission credit)  13 "B" Wing Lead



  7    High Squadron Leads

  4    High Group Leads

  12  Wing Leads 

  1     Deputy Divison Lead

  1    Division Lead

  1    8th AF/ 3rd DIV/ 13 Wing Lead

  1    Task Force/ 13 "B" Wing Lead



Lead Crew: Flew Andy's Dandy's



1st Lt Austin Dunlap Pilot

2nd Lt Dewey Nelson  Co-Pilot

2nd Lt Ray Miller Navigator

2nd Lt Burton Fox Bombardier (Received 2 Purple Hearts)

Lt Harry Tennenbaum  Mickey Operator (from Lt Shaddix Crew)

Lt Mike Kretow Mickey Operator on Russian Shuttle only (from Lt George Fory Crew Lead Crew)

Dayton — Col. Ray E. Miller U.S.A.F. (ret), age 94, died just before midnight last night in his apartment in Kettering Ohio.  Col. Miller is a veteran of WW II where he flew 32 combat missions in B17’s. Korea where he flew in supplies from Europe in C-119’s and the Vietnam War, where he served on General Westmorland’s Staff in Saigon. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, Distinguish flying cross with two oak leaf clusters, The Bronze Star, The Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters and the French Legion of Honor.  He retired at Wright-Patterson AFB in 1973. He grew up in Goshen Indiana where he was a star athlete on many of the Goshen high school teams. He was the oldest son of Carl and Ruth Miller. Col. Miller served as an Elder at the United Christian Church in Clayton Ohio for over 30 years and was a founding member of the Western Ohio Woodworkers Association. He is also a founding member of the 100th Bomb Group Foundation.  The viewing will be held Tuesday February 9th from five to seven at Hazel-Baker Snyder Funeral Home 5555 Philadelphia Dr. Dayton, and he will be interred at the Va. National Cemetery on Third Street in Dayton. Funeral services will be held at the funeral home at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday the 10th at 10:00 A.M. and grave side at Noon.