Personnel

CREW



2nd Lt Claget E. "Mac" McAlister  P   FEH

2nd Lt Arthur E.Johnson           CP   FEH

2nd Lt JAcques J.Weinstock   NAV   FEH  

Sgt John M.Martucci              TTE   FEH 

Cpl Allen O.Schmitz               ROG   FEH 

Cpl Vernon L.Erskine             BTG    FEH 

Cpl Thomas L.Freeman          TOG   FEH

Cpl Leonard S.Hambrick          WG   FEH  

Cpl Roderick E.McComber        TG   FEH 



418th Sqdn.  Crew,as above,joined the 100th Group early April 1945



Flew aircraft 48660 LD-S and  A/C # 297707  LD-A PFF



Training Flight: 13 APRIL,1945  in B-SQDN,ELEMENT THREE,LEFT WING,FLYING A/C # 339166 LD H YO YO BUDDY,   HARDSTAND 45

 

Practice mission (COMBAT MISSION SCRUBBED)   19 APRIL,1945  B-SQDN, ELEMENT THREE, RIGHT WING, FLYING A/C  # 338945 LD- F DUFFY'S TUFFYS,   HARDSTAND 48

 

PRACTICE MISSION FOR THE CHOWHOUND MISSIONS, APRIL 25,1945, B-SQDN, ELEMENT THREE,RIGHT WING FLYING A/C # 338821  LD-O  GIRDLE GERTIE , HARDSTAND 39



CHOWHOUND: 

MAY 5, 1945  ALKMAAR, AF, HILVERSUM, BAARN, CH  D-SQUADRON McALLISTER  A/C# 339162 LD- U GINGER      HARDSTAND #41



(4 JUNE,1945  418TH  BS diary notes, All crews not to stay with 100th BG must check out on their ATC Flight requirements. Pilot's,CP's,Nav's. ROG's..all have standards to fulfill  which require considerable flight time and problems)  

 

BANJO MISSION, 22 JUNE,1945  McALISTER   A/C # 48660 LD-S    HARDSTAND  # 44, ELEMENT 2,  RIGHT WING

(BANJO missions were experimental training missions with new form of CHAFF to counter enemy radar systems) 

 

2 JULY 1945, McALISTER, IN 48660 LD-S WAS OUT FLYING THE RADIO RANGE AT BOVINGDON TO GET IN HOURS TIME FOR ATC REQUIREMENTS.

 

3 JULY 1945, McALISTER ,  BANJO MISSION, A-SQDN,  A/C # 297707  LD-A PFF

 

6 JULY 1945, McALISTER,   A/C  # 48660 LD-S     NAVIGATION  HOP

 

10 JULY,1945, McALISTER, SLOW TIME ON  # A/C # 297707  LD-A PFF  IN MORNING

 

12 JULY,1945, McALISTER,  A/C # 48660 LD-S   TRAINING FLIGHT

 

13 JULY,1945, McALISTER, TO LEISTON--OVERNIGHT TO TRANSPORT FIGHTER GROUP BASE TO BASE IN GERMANY   48660 LD-S

When your dads crew flew the 357th FG personnel into Germany from their UK base they landed on the Reims Luftwaffe air field the 100th BG bombed on 9 April,1945 when looking to take out the me-262 jets. My dads crew flew some of those ferry missions as well. (reference the W.Griswold Smith crew page) They landed on the air field they bombed just a few months earlier which they enjoyed walking around the field to see some of the jets and other a/c assembled there in various stages,conditions for transport to the states. They drove around in a German staff car,the officers that is. The NCO's walked around.

 

15 JULY,1945, McALISTER,   A/C #48660 LD-S TO LEISTON

 

16 JULY,1945, McALISTER    A/C #48660 LD-S RETURN FROM  LEISTON

 

23 JULY,1945, McALISTER,   A/C #48660 LD-S TO LEISTON AND R-58

 

28 JULY,1945, McALISTER, ,  A/C #48660 LD-S,  TRAINING FLIGHT    

 

30 JULY,1945, McALISTER,   A/C #48660 LD-S  TO    A-89

 

31 JULY,1945, McALISTER,   A/C #48660 LD-S  TO  R-85  VIA  LEISTON

 

No further mention of pilot or many others...in  August, change of diary entries format by 418th BS, bad weather reduced flighting time,record keeping relaxed standards.