Personnel

CREW 



2ND LT COY I. MONTGOMERY        P KIA 6 MAR 44  BERLIN

2ND LT ROBERT F. CONNAWAY    CP POW 6 MAR 44  BERLIN

2ND LT FRANK C LAVER             NAV POW 6 MAR 44  BERLIN

2ND LT JAMES D. FULTON         BOM POW 6 MAR 44  BERLIN

T/SGT     GEORGE W. BURTON  TTE POW 6 MAR 44 BERLIN (SEE NOTE BELOW)

 S/SGT LOLA D. FLORIDA           TTE POW 4 FEB 44  FRANKFURT (with Lt John Brown Crew)

 S/SGT GEORGE D. TOOMEY, JR. ROG POW 4 FEB 44  FRANKFURT (with Lt John Brown Crew)

    SGT JOHN A. MILLER               WG CPT 17 JUL 44 MONTGOURNEY (NO-BALL)

    SGT EARL W. RITTER               TG POW 6 MAR 44  BERLIN

    SGT JUNIOR L. BUCHER            WG POW 6 MAR 44  BERLIN



349th Sqdn.  Crew, as above, joined the 100th Group on 6 Jan 44  (Crew #40)



For 6 Mar 44 mission see MACR #3014, Microfiche #1019.  They were flying A/C #42-30170 which had flown under three names: Torchy 2nd, HOT SPIT, and MISS CARRIAGE.



On 6 Mar 44, Lt Frank C. Laver was the Navigator and a POW; Sgt Wilbur Trembley, (from Lt Stout Crew) was the ROG and a POW; T/Sgt George W. Burton was the TTE and a POW; S/Sgt Anthony Ruda was the RWG and a POW, and S/Sgt Louis P. Savell was the BTG and a POW 



 Eyewitness Account:  "At 1215 hours just north of Hanover an A/c believed to be #170

 was atttacked by enemy fighters & was shot down. four or five chutes were seen.

 I.D. of this aircraft is not positive, it may have been #051."



      Lt. Chadwick





The Germans buried Lt Montgomery (Coy I.) on 10 Mar 1944, noting the cause of death as crash/ burns...



CREW

2ND LT   JOHN W.BROWN  P EVADEE 4 FEB 44 FRANKFURT

2ND LT   ALBERT F. FITZPATRICK CP POW  4 FEB 44 FRANKFURT

2ND LT   THEODORE H. KLEINMAN NAV EVADEE 4 FEB 44 FRANKFURT

2ND LT   LAWSON W. CLEMENTS BOM POW  4 FEB 44 FRANKFURT

 S/SGT   CHARLES R. AMBRUST WG NOC

 S/SGT   RICHARD F. BRADY  ROG NOC

 S/SGT   LAWRENCE M. PRATT TTE NOC 

    SGT    MILTON GRABEL             TG KIA  25 MAY 44 BERLIN

    SGT   GORDON F. KEON  BTG POW  4 FEB 44 FRANKFURT

   SGT     OWEN D. STOCKTON  WG POW  6 MAR 44 BERLIN





349th Sqdn. Crew joined the 100th Gp on 28 Nov 1943.. Sgt Gordon Keon was the only enlisted man of this crew

 to particiapte in the Frankfurt mission of 4 FEB 44.  Other aboard for this mission and their fate is a follows:

 

 S/SGT GEORGE E. TOOMEY  ROG POW (FROM C.I. MONTGOMERY CREW)

 S/SGT LOLA D. FLORIDA  TTE POW (FROM C.I. MONTGOMERY CREW)

 S/SGT WILLIAM F. KEMP  WG KIA    (FIRST MISSION)

 S/SGT HAROLD F. JANDERUP  WG POW ( TAPS 25 SEP 69)

 S/SGT RICHARD A. TANGRADI  TG POW 



 Ship suffered severe flak damage and had three engines out over the German-Belgian border. The crew

 with the exception of William Kemp, who was apparently badly wounded, bailed out safely. Gordon Keon had

 a flak wound in one arm.

  

 A statement by Theodore Kleinman after his return say the bail-out occured about 10 miles SSE of Turnhout,

 Belgium and continues:  "After contacting an underground unit I was placed in a house in Turnhout. Several days

 later I was told something in French concerning the rest of the crew. With my meagre understaning of French, Kemp

 was unable to leave th ship due to severe wounds and he went down with the plane. A man was found by the

 Germans in the rear half of the ship with his head badly battered, but alive. I later recieved a report the man with the

 battered head died."



 German records in the MACR file confirm a badly wounded man found in the ship died in the hospital the following day.