Personnel

CREW



CAPT E.D. WOOTEN              COM/PILOT 24 DEC 44 BULGE RELIEF

IST LT JEAN V. DePLANQUE              P CPT 24 DEC 44 BULGE RELIEF

2ND LT CHARLES S. BAYHA             CP POW 03 MAR 45 BRUNSWICK

   F/O CHARLES A. BENYUNES       NAV CPT 03 MAR 45 BRUNSWICK

2ND LT STANLEY A. RABINOWITZ BOM RFS MEDICAL REASONS

    SGT RAYMOND C. KOWALSKI    ROG CPT

    SGT JOSEPH KOSIK                     TTE CPT

    SGT STANLEY P. CARSON           BTG KIA 31 DEC 44 HAMBURG

    SGT HAROLD SMITH                     WG CPT

    SGT KING M. WELDON                  WG NOC

    SGT KENNETH L. CRISPIN, JR.      TG CPT



418th Sqdn..  Crew as above joined the 100th 23 Sep 1944

Capt Wooten was the 418th Operations Officer.



Edward Densmore Wooten, born Greenwood Mississippi, attended MS State (Go

Bulldogs!) early in the war, major was commercial aviation.

He was also vice wing commander of the 99th bomb group (b-52s) out of Westover AFB, MA, his health (blood pressure) prevented him from rotating to Vietnam. That is when he moved to 8th AF Inspector General. For more history, he was also Vice Wing Commander for a refueling squadron in Goose Bay CA in the early 60’s, KC-135s, we were there when Kennedy died.



Also Base Commander of Westover AFB in about 1957.

Spent time at the Pentagon early in Vietnam, went to the War College.



Cheers and all that,

Bryan Wooten-Son

My father took a ship to England when he was 22 years. It was after D-Day.

He used to say, ³Lamb, Ram, Mutton or Sheep² was the meal. Hehe, I never ate that growing up. I was born in 1956.

He left Europe at a age 24, a squadron commander, a Major.

He flew 30 or so missions. I know one was Bulge Relief. I need to go through more paper work.

I have a Thorpe Abbots photo. Not of him but one of a plane covered in snow that hung in his office wall for his 30 year career.

My father introduced me to Rosie Rosenthal (at my very young age) and to Cowboy Roan shortly before his (my father¹s) passing at Air Force Village II in Texas.



Proud to say I have met great men.



Cheers,



bryan Wooten  bryan.wooten@utah.edu>



On 1/31/15, 6:46 PM, "Mike Faley" :



Bryan,

Thank you for reaching out, a lot of questions and requests.  How did 

your Dadendu at thorpe abbotts? With a crew? If so, whi was in the crew?

By himself? From another bomb group?  He is a command pilot so he has 

to be on operations, how did he get there? How many missions did he fly 

and do you have a list of them? We have so little on him, due too 

records lost in national archives. What about photo of your dad at 

thorpe abbotts? Please share what you can, thanks



Mike Faley

100th BG Historian