Personnel

CREW 



1st Lt Jack R. Swartout           P CPT 24 MAY 44 BERLIN  (Command Pilot, see below)

 F/O Arch J. Drummond         CP CPT THIS IS THE POPULAR "FOUR MILE" DRUMMOND; LATER HAD OWN CREW

2nd Lt Leonard P. Bull         NAV CPT AWARDED DFC sn# O-792432  (Lead Navigator)

2nd Lt Albert D. Dahlgren    BOM CPT AWARDED DFC     ( Lead Bombardier)

  T/Sgt Dorsett C. Bennett   TTE CPT AWARDED DFC     (became Toggelier on Lt Monrad and Lt Woldt Crews, see below)

  T/Sgt Robert L. McKnight   ROG KIA 3 SEPT 43 PARIS, BEAUMONT LE ROGER, AF (with Lt Richard King Crew, see below)

  S/Sgt Harry A. Bonn           BTG CPT AWARDED DFC     (became  ROG on Lt Monrad and Lt Woldt Crews, see below)

  S/Sgt Hugh A. Smallwood    LWG CPT AWARDED DFC    (became TTE on Lt Monrad and Lt Massol Crews

  S/Sgt Joseph W. Weatherly  TG RFS  DUE TO STOMACH ULCERS  TAPS: 1985

  S/Sgt John M. Delaney        RWG CPT 2 JUNE 44 BOULOGNE (with Lt DILLE crew and Tog with Lt Schomp Crew) TAPS: 28 SEP 1985



351st Sqdn.  This was an "Original" crew (#27). SWARTOUT went on to become  C.O. of the 350TH B.S.

JACK SWARTOUT IS WELL KNOWN  IN 100TH , ONE OF THE FEW "ORIGINAL" AIRMEN TO COMPLETE A TOUR, FINISHING WITH THE 24 MAY 44 TRIP TO BERLIN. Crew flew in following aircraft 42-3307 "Skipper" EP-N,  42-30087 "Shack Rat" EP-M, and 42-31708 "Skipper II" EP-N/R

Lt Swartout was suppose to be the Command Pilot on the Regensburg Mission but was injured in a bicycle accident the night of the mission.  A Jeep struck the bicycle and Jack ended up in the hospital forcing Maj John Kidd to fly the mission in his place.  According to Swartout, a Lt Lenny Bolin (not sure of spelling) was the original CP on this crew Stateside but was made a 1st Pilot and was killed in a accident stateside enroute to England.  



This was one of the 100th BG's early Lead Crews along with Capt. Blakely (418th), Capt.Barr (349th), and Capt. Scott (350th).  Somewhere in December 43/Jan 44 the enlisted men on this crew and the copilot are removed from the crew.  Arch Drummond gets his own crew and the enlisted men end up flying with assorted different crews to complete their tours. (see lists below) 



Sgt. McKnight was with the crew of Richard C. King when killed on 3 Sept. 43. Lt J.L. Dunbar from Lt Pearson Crew flew a few missions with this crew. Dunbar is responsible for naming "Shack Rat", on practice missions, when his bombs hit the target, he always said "I hit the Shack".  



6 MAR 44 (BERLIN):  CAPT JACK SWARTOUT, COMMAND PILOT, FLYING WITH FRANK LAURO SURVIVIED A MID-AIR COLLISION WITH A FW 190.  WITH THE RUDDER BARELY SECURED AND SWINGING FROM SIDE TO SIDE SWARTOUT AND LAURO MANAGED TO GET THE "NELSON KING" BACK TO THORPE ABBOTTS. SWARTOUT WAS AWARDED THE SILVER STAR.



28 APR 44 SOTTEVAST:  AT TAKE-OFF TIME THE NEW COMMANDER, COL KELLY ELECTED TO BUMP THE 100TH'S BEST FLIGHT LEADER (CAPT JACK SWARTOUT) AND LEAD HIMSELF. THE RESULTS WERE A DISASTER, TWO SHIPS WERE LOST WHEN THE COL ELECTED TO MAKE A SECOND RUN OVER THE TARGET AT THE SAME ALTITUDE AND ON THE SAME HEADING. AMOUNG THE KIA'S WAS CAPT LAKIN WHO WAS ON HIS LAST MISSION AND THE 100TH'S BELOVED LEAD NAVIGATOR JOSEPH "BUBBLES" PAYNE; SAID BY JIM BROWN AND HARRY CROSBY TO HAVE BEEN THE BEST. COL KELLY WAS KIA ONLY NINE DAYS AFTER TAKING OVER AS GROUP C.O.



IT IS SAID THAT SWARTOUT FLEW THE VERY BEST "LEADS" IN NOT ONLY THE 100TH BUT THE ENTIRE 3RD AIR DIVISION.  NEW CREWS FLYING THEIR FIRST MISSIONS WITH SWARTOUT LEADING WERE INDEED FORTUNATE.



Note: Arch Drummond known to the 100th as "Four Mile Drummond" claimed he came from a Kentucky farm that was half way between two towns that were eight miles apart. Arch returned to that farm after WWII where he remained until his death in 1995. "Four Mile" was one of the groups most popular members. He is greatly missed but not forgotten by his old comrades. ..pw



William F. "Cut and Shoot"  Hoffman flew His first mission as tail gunner on a plane piloted by Jack Swartout.  Bill's recollection of that first mission "How did a good ole Texas boy end up in a place like this"!   



Missions of Capt. Leonard P. Bull (mpf 2002)

#      DATE         TARGET                            A/C #   A/C NAME



1.   25/6/43  BREMEN                            230087  SHACK RAT 

2.   26/6/43  LeMANS                            25865    JANIE

3.   28/6/43  ST. NAZAIRE (FLAK CITY)   25864    PICCADILLY LILY

4.   29/6/43  LeMANS                            230087  SHACK RAT              

5.   04/7/43  La PALLICE                        23307    SKIPPER

6.   10/7/43  Le BOURGET                      23307    SKIPPER

7.   15/8/43  MERVILLE                          23307    SKIPPER

8.   19/8/43  WOENSDRECHT                 23307    SKIPPER

9.   07/9/43  WATTEN

10. 27/9/43  EMDEN

11. 2/10/43  EMDEN                              23474    KING BEE

12. 3/11/43  WILHELMSHAVEN

13. 5/11/43  GELSENKIRCHEN

14. 16/11/43 RJUKAN (HEAVY WATER PLANT)

15. 24/12/43 ST JOSEPH au BOIS (NO BALL)

16. 14/1/44  NO-BALL

17. 21/1/44  NO-BALL

18. 24/2/44  POSEN

19. 02/3/44  CHARTES

20. 08/3/44  BERLIN (BIG B)

21. 16/3/44  GABLINGEN

22. 23/3/44  BRUNSWICK

*Cannot recall last 3 missions flown.





LATER MISSIONS OF CAPT SWARTOUT AS COMMAND PILOT



Date          Last Name Initial Rank Position Aircraft Nbr Target                          CREW

3/6/1944   SWARTOUT J P CAPT COM 306 BERLIN                                    CAPT.LAURO 

4/11/1944 SWARTOUT J.R. CAPT COM 708 POSEN / ROSTOCK T.O.           CAPT. ZELLER

5/1/1944   SWARTOUT J.R. CAPT COM 31903 SAARGUEMINES/WIZERNES   CAPT. VAN STEENIS "FLYING DUTCHMAN"

5/8/1944   SWARTOUT J.R. CAPT COM 31412 BERLIN                                LT HELMICK  

5/9/1944   SWARTOUT J.R. CAPT COM 31708 LAON/COUVRON; ANTHIES    LT HELMICK 

5/24/1944  SWARTOUT J.R. CAPT COM 32090 BERLIN                               LT COL OLLIE TURNER LED "A" GROUP





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S/SGT JAMES DELANEY, RWG- LATER MISSIONS AND CREWS



Date          Last Name Initial Rank Position Aircraft Nbr Target                          CREW

3/7/1944   DELANEY J.M. S/SGT RWG 66 WERL (SCRUBBED)                       LT MONRAD       

3/8/1944   DELANEY J.M. S/SGT RWG 66 BERLIN / ERKNER PLANT               LT MONRAD

3/9/1944   DELANEY J.M. S/SGT RWG 66 ORANIENBURG                             LT MONRAD

3/13/1944 DELANEY J.M. S/SGT TOG 66 NOBALL/ 11 (SCRUBBED)               LT MONRAD

3/15/1944 DELANEY J.M. S/SGT RWG 66 BRUNSWICK                                 LT MONRAD

4/7/1944   DELANEY J.M. S/SGT TOG 983 QUACKENBRUCK (SCRB)               LT MONRAD

5/23/1944 DELANEY J.M. S/SGT TOG 32018 TROYES                                 LT SCHOMP

5/25/1944 DELANEY J.M. S/SGT TOG 32018 BRUSSELS                              LT SCHOMP

5/31/1944 DELANEY J.M. S/SGT RWG 97126 OSNABRUCK                           LT DILLE

6/2/1944   DELANEY J.M. S/SGT RWG 97126 BOULOGNE                            LT DILLE



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T/SGT ROBERT MCKNIGHT KIA 3 SEPT 43



CREW 26



Mission: Paris                    M.A.C.R. #684

Date: 3 Sept.1943          Aircraft #42-30089 "SUNNY"

Time: 0920

A/C last seen: Over Beaumont AF



CREW ABOARD:

 Richard C.King  1st Lt           P    KIA

 George D.Brykalski F/O         CP    KIA

 Ernest Anderson 2nd Lt     NAV   POW

 Edward H.Hovde 2nd Lt    BOM   POW

 Robert L.McKnight T/Sgt   ROG   KIA (Crew #27)

 Trafford L.Curry T/Sgt       TTE  EVADEE

 Rudolph H.Harms S/Sgt     BTG   KIA

 Heber Hogge,Jr. S/Sgt     RWG   POW

 James M.Sides Sgt           LWG  POW 

 Donald E.Wise S/Sgt          TG  KIA



Barney Sutton, regular waist gunner on this crew, had flown six or seven missions when he received an appointment as an Aviation cadet. He returned to the U.S. and was replaced on the Crew by James Sides. Sutton became a navigator and, in the fall of 1944, returned to England for duty with the 398th Bomb Group. In a letter to this writer in 1979 Sutton had this to say, "The Esprit de Corp of the 398th was nothing to match the 100TH. However, at that time the 100TH had been shot down twice, and I feel sure the 398TH had suffered also." At the time of the 3 Sept.43 Paris mission, Derrell Piel was on sick leave and was replaced by Robert McKnight, the regular radio operator of crew #27 (Swartout Crew) .



Statement of Trafford Curry taken at Thorpe Abbotts in January 1944:



"I was in the top turret at the time we were hit amidships by flak from the Paris area. Our A/C left the formation in a steep dive and when it leveled off several thousand feet below I came out of my turret to see what was taking place. I quickly observed that the A/C was burning both in the bomb bay and the navigator's compartment. The A/C was very badly damaged and the fires were too far advanced to be extinguished. I put on my chute and when given the bail out order I tried to go out the navigator's hatch, but changed my mind when I saw the fire and smoke in that part of the A/C. I then went to the bomb bay and jumped through the flames that practically covered that area of the A/C. Just before I jumped I looked back and saw Lt.King and his co-pilot adjusting their chutes. After my chute opened I saw several other chutes come from my A/C, but never knew who they were. The A/C disappeared still in level flight and I learned later that it crashed in a field several miles away, still in level flight, but exploded soon after. I was not able to obtain any information about any of my crew members."



Plane was on bomb run when hit by flak and apparently lurched up and its right wing struck the tail section of A/C # 42-30059 flown by crew #23. Eyewitness accounts have some conflict but some said that bombs from #059 fell onto #089.



Heber Hogge is authority for information that Edward Hovde was wounded in left leg and had it amputated at hip. See M.A.C.R. #685 and #686 for more data on this crew.



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T/SGT D.C. BENNETT  Top Turret Engineer (WENT ON TO BECOME A TOGGELIER)





Date          Last Name Initial Rank Position Aircraft Nbr Target                                 CREW

3/3/1944   BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 240056 BERLIN (RECALL)                          LT KEEL

3/7/1944   BENNETT D.C. S/SGT TOG 66 WERL (SCRUBBED)                               LT MONRAD

3/8/1944   BENNETT D.C. S/SGT TOG 66 BERLIN / ERKNER PLANT                       LT MONRAD

3/9/1944   BENNETT D.C. S/SGT TOG 66 ORANIENBURG                                     LT MONRAD

3/13/1944 BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 30047 NOBALL/ 11 (SCRUBBED)                 LT MASSOL

3/15/1944 BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 31767 BRUNSWICK                                   LT SHOENS

4/11/1944 BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 867 POSEN / ROSTOCK T.O.                      LT LACY

5/1/1944   BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 39963 WIZERNES                                     LT SCHOMP

5/1/1944   BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 107007 SAARGUEMINES                            LT WOLDT           

5/8/1944   BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 31256 BERLIN                                          LT SCHOMP

5/8/1944   BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 37936 LAGLACERIE                                   LT SCHOMP

5/11/1944 BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 107007 LIEGE                                          LT WOLDT

5/12/1944 BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 107007 BRUX, OIL REFINERY                      LT WOLDT

5/13/1944 BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 32018 OSNABRUCK                                   LT WOLDT

5/19/1944 BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 107007 BERLIN                                         LT WOLDT

5/25/1944 BENNETT D.C. T/SGT TOG 31066 BRUSSELS                                       LT WOLDT



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T/SGT H.A. SMALLWOOD  LWG ( LATER TTE ON MONRAD, MASSOL CREWS)



Date          Last Name   Initial Rank   Position Aircraft Nbr Target                              CREW

3/7/1944   SMALLWOOD H A T/SGT TTE 66 WERL (SCRUBBED)                            LT MONRAD

3/8/1944   SMALLWOOD H A T/SGT TTE 66 BERLIN / ERKNER PLANT                    LT MONRAD

3/9/1944   SMALLWOOD H A T/SGT TTE 66 ORANIENBURG                                  LT MONRAD

3/13/1944 SMALLWOOD H A T/SGT TTE 66 NOBALL/ 11 (SCRUBBED)                    LT MONRAD

3/15/1944 SMALLWOOD H A T/SGT TTE 66 BRUNSWICK                                      LT MONRAD

3/27/1944 SMALLWOOD H A T/SGT TTE 31389 CHATEAUDUN/ EVREUX                 LT MONRAD

3/31/1944 SMALLWOOD H A T/SGT TTE 983 LUDWIGSHAVEN /RECALLED              LT MONRAD

4/7/1944   SMALLWOOD H A T/SGT TTE 983 QUACKENBRUCK (SCRB)                    LT MONRAD

5/1/1944   SMALLWOOD H.A. T/SGT TTE 38047 WIZERNES                                  LT MASSOL

5/1/1944   SMALLWOOD H.A. T/SGT TTE 31676 SAARGUEMINES                           LT SHOENS

5/19/1944 SMALLWOOD H.A. T/SGT TTE 38047 BERLIN                                        LT MASSOL

5/20/1944 SMALLWOOD H.A. T/SGT TTE 32018 BRUSSELS                                    LT MASSOL

5/27/1944 SMALLWOOD H.A. T/SGT TTE 31412 STRASSBOURG                             LT MASSOL

5/29/1944 SMALLWOOD H.A. T/SGT TTE 38047 LEIPZIG                                       LT MASSOL



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TAPS: ALBERT D. DAHLGREN

Albert Dahlgren died, November 30, 1993, of emphysema, in Vancover, Washington. He was the bombardier on one of the 100th's four original lead crews with Jack Swartout as pilot, Arch Drummond as co - pilot, and Lenord Bull as navigator; he flew most of his missons on their plane "Skipper." On 16 of his 25 missions, his plane lost one or more engines; his crew crash landed twice. He always said that his "finest hour was his work as Lead Bombardier in the bombing of Danzig, Poland." Winston Churchill called it, "the finest example of daylight precision bombing." After he left the service he bought a threater and several restaurants and taverns in Portland, OR. He was, for a time, the mayor of Ranier, Washington Mrs. Dahlgren writes that "Our trip to England for the 1983 dedication of the tower museum was the highlight of our travels." He was interred in Williamette National Cemetery,,,,PT JACK SW



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