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  DUNLOP PFF CREW)

2nd Lt Burton S.Fox            BOM CPT    19 SEPT 44  SZOLNOK, HUNGARY  (with AUSTIN  DUNLOP 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.  Both Lt Fox and Lt Miller were transferred to 350th BS and  Lt Austin Dunlop's Crew.  



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.



According to Sgt Ed Deluccie (Lt John Evans Crew), Sgt. Clarence Porter Jr was injured by a 50 calibur tracer bullet(friendly fire) and the only thing that saved his life was that the tracer cauderized the wound as it went through him, othewise he would have died.  Sgt Porter's wounds took him off flying status and he was replaced on the crew by a S/Sgt Joseph Parrilla. this action happened around the crews 22nd mission.  

(April 14, 2000 by Ed DeLuccie)



From Sgt Ed DeLuccie's records of Missions, Sgt Joe Parrilla took over WG duties on Crew of Lt John Evans

starting with the crews 22nd Mission.  Those missions are as follows



22.  5/24/44-Berlin

23.  5/25/44-Brussels

24.    6/6/44-French Coast (D-Day)

25.    6/6/44-French Coast (D-Day)

26.  6/11/44-Berck-Sur-Mer

27.  6/14/44-Le Culot

28.  6/15/44-Wilster

29.  6/18/44-Brunsbuttelkoog

30.  6/21/44-Ruhland (Shuttle Mission to Russia)

31.  6/26/44-Drohobyez, Poland

32.   7/3/44-Arad (Rumania)

33.   7/5/44-Beziers (Italy to Base)

34. 7/13/44-Munich

35. 7/17/44-South France (No Ball)