Personnel

CREW



1ST LT JOHN P. KEYS                  P  KIA 8 AUG 44 ST SYLVIAN

F/O ELVIN W. SAMUELSON         CP  KIA 8 AUG 44 ST SYLVIAN

2ND LT PATRICK H. LOLLIS      NAV  KIA 8 AUG 44 ST SYLVIAN

2ND LT ELTON DICKENS          BOM  KIA 8 AUG 44 ST SYLVIAN

T/SGT FRANK O. THOMAS        ROG  KIA 8 AUG 44 ST SYLVIAN

T/SGT HARRY D. PARK             TTE  KIA 8 AUG 44 ST SYLVIAN

S/SGT PETER P. MARTIN          BTG  KIA 8 AUG 44 ST SYLVIAN

S/SGT GILBERT A. "GIB" BORBA  WG  POW   8 AUG 44 ST SYLVIAN

   SGT JOSEPH A. COSTANZA    WG  NOC

S/SGT DONALD V. RIEGER          TG  KIA 8 AUG 44 ST SYLVIAN



349th Sqdn..  Crew, as above, joined the 100th 3 May 1944. Was on their 26th mission.



EYEWITNESS: "one and one half minutes before Bombs Away, A/C #865 was hit by flak in the #2 engine. near the waist escape hatch, and a    

burst that knocked off the tail assembly.  The aircraft nosed down out of the formation. Nothing further is known concerning this aircraft."



NOTATION IN MACR: "Lt Dickens bailed out serioulsy injured in the left leg. Talked sensibly about three hours before slowly becoming delirious.     Words became impossible to understand. We bailed out at 1130 hours and Lt Dickens died at approximately 1800 hours.  

I think,  from loss of blood." (It is impossible to identify the above from the MACR, but it must have been Gilbert A. Bordba.....pw)   



A/C # 43-37865   MACR # 8073, Micro-fiche # 2964



30 MISSIONS FLOWN from Sgt J.A.Costanza Diary (mpf)



May   11, 1944  Liege  Marshalling Yard

May   13, 1944  Osnabruck Air Field

May   19, 1944  Berlin  

May   23, 1944  Troyes  Did not bomb, too much cloud cover, brought bombs back

May   24, 1944  Berlin  

May   27, 1944  Strousbourg JU88 Plant

May   29, 1944  Leipzig  JU88 Plant

June  04, 1944  Boulogne Coastal Guns

June  06, 1944  D-Day

June  07, 1944  Nantes  Bridge

June  25, 1944  France  No-Ball 

June  29, 1944  Bohlen/Liepzig Oil Refineries

July   11, 1944  Munich  Buzz Bomb Factory

July   12, 1944  Munich  Buzz Bomb Factory

July   14, 1944  France  No-Ball

July   17, 1944  Auxerre  Bridge

July   19, 1944  Schweinfurt ME 109 factory

July   20, 1944  Mersburg Oil Refinery

July   21, 1944  Ludwigshaven Chemical Firm

July   25, 1944  St. Lo  Front Lines (Only one waist gunner per mission, will alternate with Sgt. Borba)

July   28, 1944  Mersburg Oil Refinery (Costanza did not fly)

Aug   04, 1944  Hamburg Tank Factory (Costanza did not fly)

Aug   06, 1944  Berlin  (Costanza did not fly, waiting for Toggilier school)

Aug   07, 1944  North France brought back bombs (Costanza did not fly)

Aug   08, 1944  St Silvain No-Ball  The whole crew was KIA on this mission except Sgt Borba.

Sole survivor, this was crews 26th Mission.