Personnel

CREW



2ND LT RONALD CUMMING             P CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

2ND LT JOHN J. WILLIAMSON       CP CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

2ND LT DELON C. GOODWIN      NAV CPT 28 SEP 44 MERSEBURG  sn# 0-711391

2ND LT CHARLES G. SHIVELY     BOM CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

S/SGT LEROY DOYAL                ROG CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

S/SGT CLIFFORD W. BAER          TTE CPT 03 FEB 45 BERLIN

   SGT EMILE T. GIARD               TG CPT 28 SEP 44 MERSEBURG

   SGT WILLIAM C. WHEELER      WG CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ

   SGT ISAAC GOLDEN               BTG CPT 27 SEP 44 MAINZ-translator on 1st Russian Shuttle

   SGT ALISTAIR A. YOUNG         WG WIA 19 SEP 44 SZOLNOK-Injured by flak, left in Foggia, Italy with 15thAF



351st Sqdn.. Crew joined the 100th on 29 May 1944 

Flew many missions in "OUR GAL SAL" 42-31767. This crew also flew the following A/C 43-37521-Skyway Chariot, 42-102598-Super Rabbit, 42-102416-Lady Luck, 42-31708-Skipper II during thier tour of duty.  On 2nd Russian Shuttle, Lt Cummings was forced to leave 337915 in Russia due to battle damage (hydraulics shot out).  Flew out in "Little Joe" 42-102586  from 96th Bomb Group, 339th BS, QJ-Z .  



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



1.     6/5/1944 25 131 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 37800 BOULOGNE(CHG)

2.     6/6/1944 25 -132 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31256 FALAISE/OUISTREHAM

3.     6/7/1944 25 -135 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 102598 NANTES (BRIDGES)

4.     6/8/1944 25 -136 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 97126 TOURS (BRIDGES)

5.    6/14/1944 25 -139 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31676 LE CULOT (AIR FIELD) RECALL

6.    6/18/1944 55 -141 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31256 BRUNSBUTTELKOOG

7.    6/19/1944 25 -142 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 107007 CORME ECLUSE, AF

8.    6/20/1944 55 -143 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 37521 FALLERSLEBEN

9.    6/21/1944             SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 107007 RUHLAND (START OF RUSSIAN SHUTTLE MISSION)

10.  6/26/1944 55 149 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 107007 DROHOBYCZ, POLAND, (RUSSIAN SHUTTLE)

11.   7/3/1944 55 151 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 107007 ARAD, RUMANIA            (RUSSIAN SHUTTLE) 

12.   7/5/1944 55 153 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 107007 BEZIER (FROM ITALY)    (RETURN FROM RUSSIAN SHUTTLE)

13.   7/7/1944 55 155 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 BOHLEN/MERSEBURG

14.  7/12/1944 55 158 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 MUNICH (IND. AREA)

15.  7/13/1944 55 159 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 MUNICH (JET ENGINES)

16.  7/14/1944 55 160 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 102416 SOUTH OF FRANCE

17.  7/17/1944 55 161 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31708 AUXERRE & MONTGOURNOY

18.  7/18/1944 55 162 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 97126 KIEL & HEMMINGSTADT

19.  7/19/1944 55 163 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 SCHWEINFURT & DUREN

20.  7/20/1944 55 164 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 MERSEBURG

21,  7/21/1944 55 165 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 REGENSBURG

22.  7/25/1944 55 167 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 107233 ST LO (GND SUPPORT)

23.  7/29/1944 55 169 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31676 MERSEBURG

24.  7/31/1944 55 170 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31412 MUNICH (AERO ENGINES)

25.    8/3/1944 55 172 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 TROYES (RAIL YARD)

26.    8/4/1944 55 173 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 HAMBURG (OIL)

27.    8/6/1944 55 175 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 37936 BERLIN

28.  8/11/1944 55 178 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31676 VILLACOUBLAY

                      FLAK LEAVE

29.  8/25/1944 55 184 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31708 POLITZ (OIL)

30.  8/26/1944 55 185 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31708 BREST

      8/27/1944 55 186 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 6295 BERLIN (RECALL)

31.   9/5/1944 55 190 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 STUTTGART (AERO ENGS)

32. 9/11/1944 55 194 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31767 RUHLAND (OIL)

33. 9/12/1944 55 195 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 38812 MAGDEBURG (OIL)

34. 9/13/1944 55 196 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 31412 SINDELFINGEN

35. 9/18/1944 55 197 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 37915 WARSAW

36. 9/19/1944 55 198 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 102586 SZOLNOK (FROM RUSSIA)

37. 9/26/1944 55 200 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 6285 BREMEN

38. 9/27/1944 55 201 SHIVELY C.G. LT BOM 6295 MAINZ





Letter in 1982 from Ronald Cumming to Jim Brown, states John Williamson joined the Air Reserve after the war and was killed in a T-6 accident. Also states Alistair Young was wounded on a mission from Russia to Italy, Cumming himself re-entered the Air Force in 1951 and retired in 1969 as a Lt Colonel.





From: Jack O'Leary 

Subject: Ron Cumming crew info,Charles G.Shively,BOMB on crew

To: "Chris Shively" 

Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 6:08 AM





Hi Chris,

 

I went through the 100th BG Foundation database for the Ron Cumming crew,351st Bomb Squadron and have at least one good crew member to contact.

William C. Wheeler, the waist gunner on the crew.

This address should be good for him since he paid his Foundation dues for the newsletter SPLASHER SIX in the past two years.

WILLIAM C. WHEELER

1338 INNSBRUCK CT

WINTER HAVEN,FLORIDA 33884

PHONE 813-783-1990    (NOTE--sometimes the phone area codes change suddenly if you have a problem with the number,since members don't always advise us to a change) 

 

The officers and enlisted men were not to hang out with each other but many times crews didn't follow that order.i.e.  My dad John J. O'Leary the WG/Armorer on the crew was very friendly with the pilot on his crew 1st Lt. W. Griswold "Gris" Smith,349th BS and they kept in touch after the war)

 

We have nothing in the database for Clifford Baer,the TTE...Isaac Golden.a WG...Alistair A. Young, the TG...

Ron Cumming died 3/31/05 and I just checked with social security and it looks like Emile T. Giard,the BTG died recently 18 NOV,2010,the other crew are deceased as noted in the TAPS section database. I just checked on Delon since we were not aware or notified he died. SSDI has him Born 14 DEC,1923---Died 25 Sept,2005.

I am the website message board administrator so I'll post his TAPS listing on the website and include it in the next issue of SPLASHER SIX to the editor.

You might want to consider joining for a year just to get the four quarterly newsletters that run 25 pages or so. They are GREAT,it's cheap to join as well. We have a reunion planned for this year in Cleveland in Sept,2011. Check out the REUNIONS pages on the website for some past photos and details on them. Nothing like being around 100th BG veterans and their families at the reunions!