Mission No 112

PUGH Mission No 112

MISSION NO. 112
WEIMAR, GERMANY

24 AUGUST, 1944

Thirteen hundred heavy bombers were dispatched on Policing attacks on German oil refineries from Hannover to Brux and aircraft factories n the BrunswickLLeipzig area.

The 457th Group was assigned a land armament factory located five miles northwest of Weimar, worked by political Prisoners from an adjoining concentration camp. Gestapo barracks and a headquarters were also in the target area. Recent reports indicated the factory was also engaged in producing the V-2 rocket bomb.

The 36 planes with the team of Major Smith and Captain Clarence E. Schuchmann leading the 94th A Combat Wing, formed and experienced some difficulty in achieving Wing and Division formation. When the German coast was penetrated near the mouth of the Elbe River, all clouds had disappeared. Hamburg and Bremen were passed on the left and right as the formation headed southeast for the BerlinLMagdeburg gap. Shortly before reaching this point, near Stendahl, Lt. Teddy G. Shaw in the low box was hit by a jet, left the formation with No.2 and No. 3 engines on fire, went into a spin, pulled out and went into another spin before exploding at 10,000 feet. None of the crew survived.

When the formation swung around to the east and south of Leipzig to approach the IP, Lt. Windred L. Pugh's plane was hit by antiaircraft fire, peeled off at 25,000 feet, spiralled down, whipped upward into a stall, and the right wing and tail came off. It then spun down, exploding at about 10,000 feet, with four to five chutes observed before the explosion. Five of the crew failed to survive.

At the IP, the boxes took intervals for the bomb run in a cloud free sky. The targets were identified and bombs dropped. The lead and high box covered half of the compact mass of buildings in the factory area with some bombs falling over into the Gestapo area. The low box put most of its bombs off to the left in the woods, but some reached into a corner of the stores area of the plant.

The target area was left a smoking, burning ruin as the boxes rallied into wing formation and headed northwest for their exit from Germany near Emden. No fighters and flak were seen on the way.

Besides the two aircraft lost, four were damaged by flak at the target.

CREW LOADING LIST

August 24th, 1944
Mission No 112 Target: Weimar, Germany

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748th Squadron

749th Squadron

750th Squadron

751th Squadron

	A/C # 955		A/C # 733		A/C # 701		A/C # 827
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg rwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	James E. Sherrod Gordon C. Esch Rolland L. Boyle Stewart W. Jakku James M. Perrin Wayne C. Rapp Leo J. Gawroniak Joe L. Steele Lyle D. Johnson	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Douglas L. Deal George A. Beere Roy I. Vaughn John M. Traylor, Jr Paul E. Miller Cedric N. Priest George W. Emerson Edward F. Morgan George Blaire	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Clarence E. Schuchmann William F. Smith, Jr Marsh M. Calloway John L. Kabelac John W. Tadje Dino H. Tonelli William H. Trusselle John H. Lambert Raymond K. Mills Edgar D. Lanzoni Billy L. Dalton	Lt Maj Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Donald E. Zigler Eugene M. Peresich Norman M. Franz Oliver P. Kolstoe Edgardo Buletti Ernest C. George Edgarde Buletti Raymond L. Rule Robert L. Theiss Willie L. Storrer

	A/C # 101		A/C # 181		A/C # 571 LOST		A/C # 155
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	A/C # 834		A/C # 633		A/C # 765		A/C # 587
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Donald L. Zeiler Sidney A. Bacon Hiram M. Drache William C. Oliver Samuel J. Gelvin Dominic F. Muscato Stanley R. Patterson James J. Rodel Carl Lewis	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Stanley E. Kleiner John L. Fowler William J. Brandt Ralph J. Smithling George H. Manos John R. Billington James E. Haddock Rene V. Gabriel Lloyd C. Holdredge	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Robert L. Kaufman Robert C. Burkholder D. J. Letizia H. J. Smuzynski Sanford J. Cadwell Edwin M. Sinclair Rudolph J. Buczak Warren G. Antoine Lauren C. Keene	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Jack D. Marks Kenneth E. Yap Harold L. Kaplan Richard K. Newman Junior Schaner Joseph A. Macke George K. Raymond William H. Shaffer Fredrick B. Weyand

	A/C # 470		A/C # 113		A/C # 551		A/C # 451
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	John W. Norton Harry P. Polenski Robert I Braun Daniel A. Malcolm Robert J. Wngle Morris R. Walker John P. Medica Augustus W. Herrmann Paul O. Connor	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	William S. Fisher William C. Bonnell, Jr Robert Ekbiom, Jr Rupert L. Phipps David M. Peterson Herman J. Ratica Ernest L. Levonian Buford B. Lawson Stanley P, Gillespie	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	William W. Millea Lyman C. Plyer Terrance E. Rice Sanford W. Lewin Albert S. Levy Alvert E. Young Edward J. Roos Curtins E. Harmon John W. Paisley	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Hercules Phyllides Lloyd C. French Frederick J. Stokinger Elman A. Salo James L. Warn Frank N. Smith Lester T. Weaver Wiliam C. Adams James L. Warn Carl A. Robbie

	A/C # 558 LOST		A/C # 086		A/C # 535		A/C # 383
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Teddy G. Shaw Richard H. Parsons Jack M. Thames Paul J. Terjak Robert P. Stewart Lawrence W. Erlings J. I. Perry Elbert Q. Allen Clarence W. Cox	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Ray D. Hedrick, Jr Basil R. Dundas, Jr John B. Parker Edwin B. Benson Philip H. Snyder, jr Donald H. Gravelle Carl W. Ostland John J. Sweeny Vincent J. Fallon	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	alph I. Evans Raymond A. Carlsen Einar L. Nelson John H. Cheatham Leslie R. Peterson Franklin H. Kark Maurice E. Patterson Elmer R. Sonday Charles B. Pilling	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	John W. White Norman S. Brandvold Jacob Landsman Leon J. Zimmerman Robert L. Jackson Gerald E. Whitman Joseph M. Geller Albert C. Williams Leon C. Johnson

	A/C # 899		A/C # 828		A/C # 606		A/C # 456
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	John F. Angier Samuel E. Cashman Martin Schwartz Howard H. Lang William M. Thomas Maynard E. Judson Charles D. Osborne Edwin C. VanTine Robert W. Turnstall	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Arnet L. Furr Sterling H. Book, Jr Joseph W. Andrews, Jr Leon M. Plagianos lfredo J. Raimo Edward Rambler Warren M. Rankin Ross D. Pogue Leroy E. Wetzel	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Franklin H. Morrell William M. Hammersley Lawrence C. Ghiorse Donald R. McCurdy Harold L. Barris Lloyd L. Kogler Robert G. Fortna Dwight M. Parken Charles L. Bradford	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Harold D. Gay Earl W. Johnson Walter H. Sale Favian F. Nordan Donald F. Anderson Arthur G. Beck Fred G. Cogswell Arthur B. Rounseville McDee Thomas

	A/C # 826		A/C # 687		A/C # 075		A/C # 021
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Robert I. Ellsworth John V. VanIngen Thomas O. Metcalfe James D. Kreighbaum James A. Mellin Norman M. Allegan Alex McCahon Joseph J. Smolinski Robert J. Stubbs	Lt Lt Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	William D. Hurdis Elmer Mittwoch Merton L. Pond Joseph E. Ellis Marsh Hovey Mark K. Miller William L. Finley Daniel W. Richmond Lawrence C. Johnston Robert S. Moedan	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Clayton E. Bejot Augustus J. Harris Andrew V. Solari Fernando P. Biancalana Paul G. Parker Norman A. Depelteau Oliver F. Orris Vinell L. Bush James H. Neelan	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Arthur M. Ford Mason H. Cummings William A. Moore Maurice B. Wilks Gene F. Skidmore Melvin G. Shields Harrel D. Sallis Dencil C. Adams William L. Egri

	A/C # 954		A/C # 079		A/C # 018		A/C # 785
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Wayne B. Tweten James Wilson Robert J. Maitland John A. Franck Gordon M. Ellison William H. Carroll James A. Kolofa James G. Grantham William G. Sewell	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Joe D. Coleman Edward F. Salman William G. Watts Thomas S. Crowley Francis E. Snow Robert L. Harrison George Martin, Jr Geroge B. Crockett Robert G. Smith	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Montell C. Higgins Edwin S. Jackson John O. McCaughan Robert T. Brady Fred E. Lawyer Francis J. Winder Philip G. Porter Bill C. Smigielski Jonm B. Pawloski	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	John A. Fox Herbert A. Rochlitz Jack R. Muth Richar R. Hinman Alfred J. Rubino Calvin Campbell Richard J. Imhoff Guy P. Wharton Dorsia C. Stutler

	A/C # 118		A/C # 948		A/C # 923		A/C # 796
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	A/C # 905		A/C #		A/C #		A/C # 026
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	William H. Flannery Jewell W. Lowery William J. Meng, Jr John G. Schloendon Lloyd K. Laggassa Duane E. Stowits George L. Petty Robert A. Storey Richard W. Swank	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt		Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt		Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Harry H. Selling Gerald W. Esser Robert F. Marcum Howard Peterson James P. Shadman Edwin C. Krueger Donald W. Conley Leo A. Ryder Robert A. Baker

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