Personnel

CREW



2ND LT DELBERT L .THOMPSON       P CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

2ND LT ALBERT A. KNEISS           CP CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

2ND LT LEO R. KIMBALL              NAV CPT COMPLETED TOUR WITH LT GERALD BROWN CREW "BROWN'S CLOWNS"

2ND LT HAROLD A. SMITH          BOM NOC (flew at least one mission with Lt Ellison Crew)

S/SGT GEORGE A. RANDOM         ROG CPT 12 MAR 45 SWINEMUNDE

S/SGT JOHN P. LEVENDUSKY       TTE CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

SGT ROBERT J. SOUHRADA          BTG CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

SGT FRED B. FISCHER                  WG CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN

SGT ROY L. BECK                        WG CPT 24 MAR 45 STEENWIJK/HAVELTE  & ZIEGENHAIN (TOOK OVER TG POSITION)

SGT VINCE M. BOWLIN                 TG NOC   TAKEN OFF CREW TO REDUCE TO 9 MEN



351ST SQDN..  CREW JOINED THE 100TH ON 02 AUG 1944.. ON 16 OCT 44 THIS CREW, WITH SOME CHANGES, WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE 349TH.  This Crew flew' RAMP TRAMP' 



LT TONY CONIGLIO, A NAVIGATOR, WAS ASSIGNED TO THIS CREW LATE IN 1944, REPLACING LT KIMBALL WHO WENT TO THE G. BROWN CREW..jb



PARTIAL MISSION LIST FOR LT THOMPSON CREW: FROM OPPS AND LT Kneiss log book



        Date       Aircraft Nbr Target

1.     8/15/1944 31767        VENLO

2.     8/24/1944 6295          RUHLAND (OIL)

3.     8/25/1944 6295          POLITZ (OIL)

4.     8/26/1944 6295          BREST

5.     8/30/1944 6295          BREMEN

6.     9/10/1944 38124        NURNBURG

7.     9/25/1944 38124        LUDWIGSHAVEN

8.     9/27/1944 37815        MAINZ

9.   10/02/1944                    KASSEL

10. 10/03/1944                    LUDWIGBURG, ILLESHEIM, NURNBURG PFF

11. 10/04/1944                    HANDORF, (NEAR MUNSTER)

12. 10/26/1944                    HANOVER

13. 11/16/1944                    AACHEN AREA, GROUND SUPPORT

14. 11/21/1944                    MERSEBURG

15. 12/02/1944                    KOBLENZ

16. 12/05/1944                    BERLIN

17. 12/24/1944                    BIBLIS, BABENHAUSEN, KAISERLAUTERN

18. 01/06/1945                    LUDWIGSHAVEN

19. 01/10/1945                    COLOGNE (BOMB DUMP BLEW UP)

20. 01/14/1945                    DERBEN  (FIGHTER ATTACK)

21. 01/20/1945                    HEILBRONN

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33.3/12/1945                        SWINEMUNDE

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35. 03/24/1945                     STEENWIJK/HAVELTE



COLDEST MISSION: -67 DEGREES AT 30,000ft.



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CREW

          BROWN'S CLOWNS



  Lt Gerald Brown           P CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

  Lt Arthur L. Jacobsen CP POW 3/2/45 BERLIN         (With crew of  J..P. Ernst)

  Lt Ralph W. Bayer    NAV KIA 10/1/45 COLOGNE     (With crew of J.J. Dodrill)

  Lt Joseph J. Dye     BOM CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND  (With crew of T. Hughes)

 Sgt Gifford D. Vieth  ROG CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

 Sgt Walter R. Peters TTE CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

 Cpl Roland L. Douglas BTG POW 31/12/44HAMBURG (With crew of C.M. William)

 Cpl Wayne E. Page     WG CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

 Cpl Clarence S. Kellogg TG CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND



351st Sqdn.  Crew appears on Crew Roster of 4/8/44 as above.  See S.O.C. 

P. 95.  Crew joined 100th Group on 25/7/44.     



Lt Ralph Bayer is memorialized on the WALL OF THE MISSING at Cambridge. 

Letter from G. Brown (30/4/84) Jacobsen died of cancer 1981 Seattle.  

Ralph Bayer left the crew in late 1944..  Went to J.J. Dodrill crew. He was replaced on the Crew by  LT KIMBALL from Lt D.L. Thompson Crew 

Joe Dye left the crew Sept/Oct 1944 and finished his tour with Lt Tom Hughes Crew.  

Dye replaced by William Titley, from the crew of O.C. Everltt, who CPT 29/1/45. 

Gifford Vieth now (1984) a prominent attorney in Washington, D.C. 

Roland Douglas left crew in Aug 1944 when it became a lead crew and no longer had a BTG position. 

 



Lt. Erwin A. Lentz assigned to crew as Mickey Operator and CT.



MISSIONS FLOWN by Lt Kimball with "BROWN'S CLOWNS"



1/21/45  Mannheim

1/28/45  Duisburg

1/29/45 Kassel

2/17/45  Frankfurt

2/21/45  Nurnburg

2/23/45  Treuchtlingen

3/3/45    Brunswick

3/10/45  Dortmund



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CREW



2nd Lt Donald N.Ellison         P  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

2nd Lt Wiley Smith Jr.      CP  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

 F/0 Frank Vandergriff Jr   NAV  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

2nd Lt Albert E. Richmond  BOM  CPT  9/3/45       FRANKFURT

S/Sgt Robert W. Wolf      ROG  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

S/Sgt Horace O.Liles      TTE  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN (name spelled Lyles in 351st BS  Squadron history)

 Sgt Robert L.Henry         BTG  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

 Sgt Harold L.Osban          WG  CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN

 Pvt Jack Jefferson              WG NOC  taken off crew to reduce to 9 men

 Sgt David E.Davis              TG CPT 17/2/45  FRANKFURT & GIESSEN



351st Sqdn..this crew assigned to the 100th July 1944

Above Crew appears on roster 13/9/44 as crew #56/58 with a Lt Stanley W Yates from Lt Stevenson Crew as Bombardier.   On 3/9/44 Lt Harold .A. Smith from Lt Thompson Crew  is riding as Bomb. in place of Lt Yates.  On 11/8/44 Lt Albert E.Richmond is the BOM.

Lt Stanley W.Yates(Bom, CPT 7/1/45- Cologne from Lt Stevenson Crew) flew some missions with this Crew.  



Known Missions of 2nd Lt Donald Ellison Crew: (incomplete…mpf)



#     DATE         TARGET                           A/C # and NAME



1.   11/8/44    VILLACOUBLAY                   42-32530    QUITTIN' TIME

2.   14/8/44    LUDWIGSHAVEN                 42-31767    OUR GAL SAL

3.   25/8/44    POLITZ                              42-107233  HUMPTY DUMPTY

4.   26/8/44    BREST                               42-31066    DIXIE BABY

5.   30/8/44    BREMEN                             42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME

6.     3/9/44    BREST                               42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME

7.     5/9/44    STUTTGART                       42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME

8.   11/9/44    RUHLAND                           42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME 

9.   12/9/44    MAGDEBURG                       42-31530    QUITTIN' TIME

10. 13/9/44    SINDELFINGEN                     42-97126   THE LATEST RUMOR

11. 18/9/44    WARSAW                            42-31412   MASON AND DIXON  (2nd Russian Shuttle Mission)

12. 19/9/44    SZOLNOK (HUNGARY)           42-31412   MASON AND DIXON  (aircraft received major flak damage to wing spar) 

13. 28/9/44    MERSEBURG                         42-32530   QUITTIN' TIME