Personnel

CREW



DATE: 11 Sept.1944           350th Sqdn.     A/C #43-38076 "Aces and Eights"



MISSION: RUHLAND                           MACR #8816,Micro-fiche  3236



2nd Lt Harold R.Taylor            P  KIA

2nd Lt Joseph E.Kitto             CP   KIA

2nd Lt Martin W.Nielson        NAV    KIA

2nd Lt Horace W.Teague       BOM   KIA

T/Sgt Frederick B.Nichols     ROG   KIA

S/Sgt Rex V.Runyan              TTE    KIA

S/Sgt Perry L.Olson              BTG  KIA

S/Sgt Harry D.Everhart         WG   POW/WIA

S/Sgt William D.Ebbert         TG   KIA



Assigned: 8th Air Force, 100th Bomb Group, 350th BS, July 18th, 1944-September 11, 1944



MISSIONS OF LT H.R.TAYLOR CREW: 

DATE             Last          First     Rank   Pos        Target                      a/c #

8/8/1944   TAYLOR        H R.    LT	     P           ST. SYLVAIN        	    97924

8/27/1944  TAYLOR      H.R.      LT      P           BERLIN  (RECALL)   38043

8/30/1944 TAYLOR       H.R      LT       P           BREMEN 	            38076

9/11/1944 TAYLOR        H.R.    LT       P            RUHLAND                38076



A letter written by Sgt.Harry Everhart on 1 Aug.1946 is quoted below:



   "On September 11,1944,around 5 o'clock in the morning we started out for a

    bombing raid on an oil plant.   About noon we ran into heavy enemy opposition

    and in about ten minutes of fighting our plane was hit.   As I had received

    no word to bail out,I stayed with my guns.  I heard S/Sgt.P.L.Olson exclaim

    that he had shot a plane himself.   When I was aware that our plane was going

    to crash it was too late to parachute out so I stayed where I was as I

    supposed the rest of the crew did.   From there on I do not recall anything

    until I woke up and found that I was surrounded by Germans.I must have been

    thrown out of the plane as I was a good ways from where I could see a plane

    burning which I supposed was ours.   The plane crashed in a wooded area and

    from what I could see was damaged very badly.   As for the rest of the crew

    I didn't see or hear anything from them.   I Was then taken to a hospital in

    Nuenstein.   I stayed at the hospital for almost 12 weeks and when I was able

    to leave for a prison camp I asked the interrogation officer if he knew any-

    thing of my crew,  and he told me they were all dead."