Personnel

CREW



  Lt Gerald Brown  P CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

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

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

  Lt Joseph J. Dye B CPT 10/3/45 DORTMUND

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

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

 Cpl Roland L. Douglas BT POW 31/12/44 (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. Joe Dye left the crew Sept/Oct 

1944 and finished his tour with another 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 BT position. A Cpl. George 

Vogiatzis was a WG on crew when it arrived at 100th.  He was removed to 

make a 9 man crew and went to the 9th Air Force as a B 26 gunner.  Was 

KIA after a few missions Lt. Erwin A. Lentz assigned to crew as Mickey 

Operator and CT.





"Originally a member of Gerald Brown's Crew, Cpl Vogiatzis transferred to a B-26 unit 

upon arrival in England after Crews were reduced from 10 to 9 men. 

He was assigned to the 554th Bomber Squadron, 386th Bomber Group (M). 

He died 16 Sep 1944 and is buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery (Plot D, Row 6, Grave 56)"

POW/KIA notes: Originally a member of Gerald Brown's Crew. Upon arrival in England, the crew was informed that the Eighth Air Force had ordered a reduction in crew sizes to nine, with only one waist gunner per crew. Accordingly, Vogie was reassigned to the Ninth Air Force.