Personnel

CREW



2ND LT LESLIE R. ROEDIGER            P CPT 9 NOV 44 SAARBRUCKEN, MY (S.T.) TAPS: 1988

2ND LT DONALD G. BISHOP           CP CPT 9 NOV 44 SAARBRUCKEN, MY (S.T.)

2ND LT JOHN D. CARPENTER       NAV CPT 9 NOV 44 SAARBRUCKEN, MY (S.T.)

2ND LT RICHARD H. TUNNICLIFF    BOM CPT 9 NOV 44 SAARBRUCKEN, MY (S.T.)

S/SGT CHARLES H. GARBOROGLIO ROG CPT 9 NOV 44 SAARBRUCKEN, MY (S.T.)

S/SGT DALE CROSS                    TTE CPT 9 NOV 44 SAARBRUCKEN, MY (S.T.) TAPS: 1958

SGT WALTER A. STONE              BTG CPT 3 MAR 45 BRUNSWICK, MT FACTORY

SGT ALVY L. WASHINGTON         WG CPT 9 NOV 44 SAARBRUCKEN, MY (S.T.)

SGT DANIEL J. SULLIVAN             WG POW 5 AUG 44 MADGEBURG  (SEE BELOW)

SGT FREDERICK J. CROWNER           TG CPT 9 NOV 44 SAARBRUCKEN, MY (S.T.)



349TH SQDN.. CREW, AS ABOVE, JOINED THE 100TH ON 12 JUN 1944 AND ON 13 SEP 1944 THEY BECAME A PATHFINDER CREW. THEY FLEW A/C 44-8009 "THIS WILL KILL YOU"



SGT SULLIVAN WAS WITH THE CREW OF B.L. SCOTT WHEN HE BECAME A POW. SEE BELOW



LETTER FROM R.H. TUNNICLIFF TO jb  DATED 21 OCT 1985:  "OUR CREW ARRIVED IN ENGLAND JUNE 6, 1944 AND AT THORPE ABBOTTS ON JUNE 7TH.  WE FINISHED OUT TOUR ON NOVEMBER 9, 1944.  WE WERE ASSIGNED TO THE 349TH.  AFTER NINE MISSIONS WE WERE MADE A LEAD CREW, CAPT EMILE BORSCH WAS OUT PATHFINDER (MICKEY) OPERATOR.  SULLIVAN WAS ASSIGNED TO ANOTHER CREW IN THE 349TH BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER HIS PILOT'S NAME, HOWEVER THE BOMBARDIER ON THAT CREW WAS ED KONOPACK. WHEN THEY WERE SHOT DOWN ON AUGUST 5, 1944 SULLIVAN AND KONOPACK BECAME POWS. CARPENTER AND I WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE HDQTRS SQDN. AFTER OUT TOUR AND WORKED IN LEAD CREW TRAINING.  ALL THE OTHERS LEFT THE 100TH ON 11 NOV 1944 FOR THE STATES.  I CAME HOME 3 FEB 1945 AND WAS MUSTERED OUT 21 JUL 1945.  I RETURNED TO MY OLD JOB AT SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK AND RETIRED AT AGE 61 IN 1978."



SAMMY BARR FLEW WITH US A  COMMAND PILOT SEVERAL TIMES, ONE OF WHICH WAS A SHUTTLE MISSION TO RUSSIA."



IN A QUESTIONAIRE FROM R. H. TUNNICLIFF AUGUST 2000: "WE FLEW LEAD FOR 21 MISSIONS.  DURING OUR 21 LEADS, OUR COMMAND PILOTS WERE COL FRED PRICE, MAJOR LYSTER,MAJOR WALLACE, COL SAMMY BARR, AND A VERY GOOD COMMAND PILOT NAMED CLARK (BELIEVE THIS TO BE STANLY CLARK).    SOME OF OUR MISSIONS WERE JULY 29, 1944 TO MERSEBURG WHEN THE 100TH LOST 8 A/C, SEPTEMBER 11, 1944 TO RUHLAND WHEN 100TH LOST 12 A/C, I WAS GIVEN CREDIT FOR DOWNING AN FW 190 DURING THE ATTACK BY THE LUFTWAFFE.  WE ALSO FLEW THE "FRANTIC 7" SHUTTLE TO DROP SUPPLIES TO PARTISANS IN POLAND ON SEPTEMBER 18TH THEN PROCEEDED ONTO POLTAVA, RUSSIA.  ON SEPTEMBER 19TH WE FLEW TO FOGGIA, ITALY BY WAY OF BUDAPEST WHERE WE BOMBED A BRIDGE.  WE WERE AWARDED AN OLC (OAK LEAF CLUSTER) TO OUR DFC FOR THIS MISSION.  GROUP BOMBARDIER DON VENTRIS ALSO FLEW WITH OUR CREW"



We were able to search and find exact film footage of the German planes and the B-17s that will match Richard Tunnicliff's story as he tells it in detail.  We even found a Focke-Wulf 190 that they had come up on their left side and Richard Tunnicliff shot it down.





Based on a Conversation with Lt Tunnicliff in 2004, the name of their plane "This Will Kill You" was based on the photograph he and Lt Roediger saw in Time magazine which showed a 1000 pound bomb being dropped with the the headline stating "this will kill you".  He also said that Sgt Crowner was the youngest on the crew, only 18 yrs old.  The Co-pilot Lt Bishop served as Formation officer/tailgunner when they became a lead crew.





SUBMITTER INFORMATION

SUBMITTER: Wendy S Erickson

EMAIL: nordicson@sbcglobal.net

PURPOSE: Report a death (TAPS)

INTEREST: I am the veteran's child



---> TAPS REPORT

VETERAN: Richard Harry Tunnicliff

DATE OF DEATH: 02/20/2006

FAMILY CONTACT: Wendy S. Erickson (daughter)

949-640-0888

278 Villa Point Dr.

Newport Beach, CA 92660





Date Crew Nbr Mission Nbr Last Name Initial Rank Position Aircraft Nbr Target

7/4/1944 05 152 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 31987 GIEN (RECALLED)

7/6/1944 06 154 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 31987 FLEURY/CREPEUIL

7/7/1944 06 155 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 31723 BOHLEN/MERSEBURG

7/8/1944 06 156 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 31987 CLAMECY-JOLGYN

7/14/1944 06 160 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 31347 SOUTH OF FRANCE

7/17/1944 06 161 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 102416 AUXERRE & MONTGOURNOY

7/18/1944 06 162 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 31986 KIEL & HEMMINGSTADT

7/19/1944 06 163 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 97834 SCHWEINFURT & DUREN

7/20/1944 06 164 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 37655 MERSEBURG

7/28/1944 06 168 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 97071 MERSEBURG

8/3/1944 06 172 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 97806 TROYES (RAIL YARD)

8/4/1944 06 173 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 31986 HAMBURG (OIL)

8/5/1944 06 174 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 97806 MAGDEBURG

8/7/1944 06 176 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 37823 BEAUTOR (BRIDGES)

8/13/1944 06 179 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 98015 NANTES - GASSICOURT

9/9/1944 PFF 192 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT PFF  DUSSELDORF

9/11/1944 PFF 194 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 32009 RUHLAND (OIL)

9/12/1944 PFF 195 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 35 MAGDEBERG (OIL)

9/18/1944 PFF 197 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 32009 WARSAW (START OF 2ND RUSSIAN SHUTTLE MISSION)

9/19/1944 PFF 198 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 32009 SZOLNOK (FROM RUSSIA)

9/25/1944 02 199 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 32009 LUDWIGSHAVEN

9/26/1944 PFF 200 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 32009 BREMEN

9/28/1944 PFF 202 TUNNICLIFF R.H. LT BOM 32009 MERSEBERG



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CREW



2ND LT BERT L. SCOTT                        P KIA   5 AUG 44 MAGDEBURG

F/O ELMORE W. HARVEY                    CP POW 5 AUG 44 MAGDEBURG

2ND LT EDWARD J. KONOPACK     BOM/NAV POW 5 AUG 44 MAGDEBURG TAPS: 19 MAY 1978

2ND LT AUGUSTUS C. CARAS           NAV CPT   10 OCT 44 COLOGNE

S/SGT BEALER W. MOORE               ROG POW 5 AUG 44 MAGDEBURG

S/SGT LLOYD E. MALTBIE                TTE KIA   5 AUG 44 MAGDEBURG  (see Maltbie record for mission log &  crew diary)

SGT RICHARD L. GOFF                     BTG POW 5 AUG 44 MAGDEBURG  (see Goff record for extensive details, 5 Aug 44 mission)

SGT JAMES J. RAKOSNIK, JR.             RWG POW 5 AUG 44 MAGDEBURG TAPS: 17 MAR 1989

SGT WILLIAM T. NELSON                LWG XFR  was transferred to 97th BG, (see email below)

SGT JOHN K. ESCHBACK                    TG POW 5 AUG 44 MAGDEBURG



349TH SQDN.. CREW, AS ABOVE, JOINED THE 100TH ON 12 JUN 1944.  ON THE MAGDEBURG MISSION OF 5 AUG 44, S/SGT DANEIL J. SULLIVAN WAS ABOARD AS THE NG AND BECAME A POW.  HE WAS FROM THE L.R. ROEDIGER CREW..pw



The following is quoted from Richard L. Goff's 1983 latter to Jim Brown.....pw



"On August 5, 1944 we were on our 14th mission. Just before the target we were forced out of formation by another aircraft. 

At that time we were hit by flak near the upper turret and behind the pilot. The plane began to burn. Just before being hit we had salvoed the bombs. There was a hell of an explosion and then the plane caught fire. We were at 24,000 feet. I managed to get out of the ball. The Waist Gunner and Radio Operator went out of the plane first, then me followed by the Tail Gunner. There was no bail out signal because the plane was destroyed when first hit by flak. I asked John (Eschback), who was the oldest of the crew, he was 30 and I was 19, how we ever survived getting out of the aircraft not to mention the long decent  and the mad people of Magdeburg. He said training and discipline. Everything went like clockwork adn no one lost their head."



Report by Lt. Edward J. Konopack adds that he and F/O Fred W. Harvey were unable to bail out because of the aircraft was in a spin but the ship blew up and they were thrown out by the force of the explosion. Probably the centrifugal force prevented Scott from getting out or he may have been killed by the initial flak hit...



ATTACHED EYEWITNESS DESCRIPTION OF CRASH, FORCED LANDING, OR CUMSTANCES PERTAINING TO MISSING AIRCRAFT



A/C #42-37839, Crew #4, B-17G



"At 1252 hours A/C #839 pulled out to right or was forced out by prop wash. A/C #865 moved up to fill in the formation. Pilot Scott apparently was trying to salvo bombs. About 90 seconds before bombs away (1256 Hours) bombs were salvoed. After dropping about 75 feet all 5 bombs exploded. At the same time it was observed that #2 engine was flaming. Wings and fuselage soon began to flame and two chutes came out the waist door. The A/C continued straight and level going down on fire. It did not explode."





REPORT ON CAPTURE OF MEMBER OF ENEMY AIR FORCE

KU 2654

POST: Hq. Local Air Base A (o) 13/III, Magdeburg - East

PLACE: Madgeburg

DATE:  7 August 1944

REGARDING: Crash: of, probable Fortress II

AT: between Gerwisch and Biederitz, 9 km northeast Madgeburg 5 August 1944, 1245



NAME: (LAST OR SURNAME)  GOFF



FIRST NAME: Richard L.



SERIAL NUMBER: (USA)36 878 674



RSULT: (DEAD OR CAPTURED)  captured



PLACE & TIME OF CAPTURE:  5 Aug 1944, 1410, Madgeburg-"Schrote" Garrison



REPORT ON CAPTURED AIRCRAFT

Form #2  KU 2654

POST:  Hq, Local Air Base A (o) 13/ III, Magdeburg - East

LOCATION:  Magdeburg

DATE:  8 August 1944



DATE & TIME A/C

WAS SHOT DOWN: 5 August 1944, 1255



PLACE OF CRASH: 500 meters south Airfield Madgeburg - East (nearest town)



KIND OF CAPTURE:  unidentifiable

(flak, hunter, night hunter

  emergency landing)



TYPE OF AIRCRAFT: Fortress II



MARKINGS OF CRAFT: unidentifiable

(letters, front and rear of insignia)



ADMITTANCE NO.: 337839 L



EQUIPMENT:  unidentifiable

F.T. Frequencies:  unidentifiable

CONDITION OF A/C: 90 % crash



DELIVERED TO DISTRIBUTORS:

(DULOG - LUFT, ETC)



The signature of the German officers initiating this report is unreadable, his rank was the equivalent of a USSAF 1st. Lt. -- pw





HEADQUARTERS

100TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP (H)

Office of the Intelligence Officer

SUBJECT:Report on T/Sgt. Lloyd E. Maltbie, 18193937

To

T/5 James P. Hill, 38182822, 34th Evac. Hosp. (SM). APO 403 % 

Postmaster, New York City, New York

APO 559

31 July 1945



1. All information we have at this Headquarters concerning T/Sgt. Lloyd E. Maltbie, 18193937, is as follows: He was Engineer and Top Turret gunner on a B-17 crew. His pilot was Lt. Bert L. Scott. On the mission of 5 August 1944, he was flying in A/C #639 (last three numbers). This A/C was seen to be in distress just before bombs away over the target of Magdeburg, Germany. It fell out of formation and jettisoned its bombs. Soon after that fire broke out in it's #2 engine, spread into the left wing and seemed to just about cover the entire plane in a very short time. A few chutes were seen in the vicinity, but observing crew members did not know if they came from this A/C. The A/C continued down in a shallow glide and it was believed that all crew members could have bailed out. This happened at 12:52 hours. Anti-aircraft fire was intense and it is possible that Sgt. Maltbie and his pilot, Lt. Scott, were both killed in the A/C. All other mmbers of the crew were prisoners of war and have subsequently been liberated. 



2. The A/C in question must have crashed a few miles from Magdeburg, but there are no reports confirming this fact. It is possible that the battle causality office in Paris had more information. Also the Adjutant General's Office in Washington, D.C. should have further information concerning the two member of this crew who were killed. I regret my inability to give you any definite information, but trust this letter may furnish leads to the answer of all your questions.



Sincerely

Charles w. Terry

Capt., Air Corps.

P.W. Officer





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Date: 7/26/2001 6:35:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time 

From: Gimlet8746 

To: MPFaley 

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