Mission No 113

Two missions were flown on this date - both are on this page. The loading lists for each mission are at the bottom of this page.

MISSION NO. 113
PEENEMUNDE, GERMANY

25 AUGUST, 1944

The heavy bomber effort of the Eighth Air Force shifted from central Germany to targets in northern Germany, along or near the Baltic Sea Coast. Aircraft plants and oil refineries at Politz and other Baltic points were targets. The 457th Group was directed to attack the electrolytic hydrogen plant building at Peenemunde on the shore of the Baltic, already damaged in previous attacks.

Colonel Luper, Air Commander, with Captain Dozier as pilot, led the three boxes to compose the 94th A Combat Wing, leading the 1st Division in the flight across the North Sea to the target.

Considerable difference between the briefed and actual winds over the North Sea caused the formation to gain twelve minutes time. The formation then led the Division in a turn left of course and "S" ed to prevent bunching up on the ten combat wings of the Third Division flying ahead.

Considerable German shipping was seen after the Danish Peninsula was crossed, as the flight east to the IP was continued. Heading into Peenemunde from the northeast, the lead bombardiers and navigators quickly identified the target area. Bombs were released from 22,000 feet, those of the lead box falling slightly over the electrolytic building with five probable hits. Those of the low box fell slightly to the left with several possible hits and those of the high box fell squarely on the building.

A few seconds after bombs away, Lt. Donald K. Goss' plane was hit in the left wing and the flap fell off. With No. 2 engine out, he peeled from the formation and headed for Sweden, where he crashed and the airplane burned. The crew survived and were interned in Sweden.

For the second day, twelve hundred planes had dropped bombs on German targets. No German fighter opposition was encountered and all of the twenty losses of the Eighth were caused by flak and operational reasons.

CREW LOADING LIST

August 25th, 1944
Mission No 113 Target: Peenemunde, Germany

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748th Squadron

749th Squadron

750th Squadron

751th Squadron

	A/C # 955		A/C # 733		A/C # 965		A/C # 441
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 Maj Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Lt Sgt	Douglas L. Deal Raymond A. Syptak Roy I. Vaughn John M. Traylor, Jr Paul E. Miller Cedric N. Priest George W. Emerson Edward F. Morgan Lentz M. Lackey	Capt Col Lt Lt Lt Capt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Maj	Edward B. Dozier James R. Luper John L. Kabelac Robert J. Burright Norman Kriehn Henry P. Loades Andrew R. Reeves Ancil O. Trusselle Dwight M. Anderson Frederick L. Exley Haggard	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	William A. Dawson Charles W. Ford George P. Korb Frank O. Pappenfuss John M. Roster Harold W. McDaniel Paul M. Zalusky C. J. Watson Fred A. Barshop

	A/C # 826		A/C # 161		A/C # 765		A/C # 421
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Charles J. Schultz Alford P. Wilson Alfred A. Houghton Theodore M. Braffman Richard L. Dickinson John R. Palladina Calvin M. Carter C. J. Peppers Charles A. Wilt	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Paul W. Gilbert Richard G. Palmer Andrew Brown, Jr Anthony G. Wodek David C. Foltz Raymond Conway Richard D. Wright Ernest Pappalardo Charles H. Borland	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	Dean F. Fisk Walter J. McGregor James F. Barnes john B. Tomkin Milo G. Hastings Don C. Brewer Fredrick Wosik Joseph E. Philhower Robert H. Hughes

	A/C # 951		A/C # 181		A/C # 796		A/C # 440
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Capt Maj Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Capt	Charles D. Brannan George C. Hozier James H. Kincaid Charles S. Tripp Gabriel C. Ofiesh John T. Matovina Joseph M. Colechia Charles R. Vandeventer Edward M. Hardin Harry P. Polanski James E. Fast	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	William F. Fiedler Fredrick C. Ernest Robert W. Pace Edward R. Sage Michael E. Attaway George A. Staltzer Joseph M. Mooney rudolph E. Stegeman Gerald D. Stevens	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	William W. Millea Lyman C. Plyer Terrance E. Rice John J. Kearney 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	Harry H. Selling Hays Bricka Robert F. Marcum Howard Peterson James P. Shadman Edwin C. Krueger Donald W. Conley Stephen F. Galluchi Robert A. Baker

	A/C # 905		A/C # 079		A/C # 923		A/C # 434
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Edward A. Taylor Jesse L. Smith Glen S. Thornton Harold W. Walbright edward J. Colleran Elie R. Carrier Arthur M. Lustig Herbert L. Webster Augustus W. Herrmann Jack W. Gazzale	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Raymond A. Fulton Robert W. Kelley John C. Fonda Charles W. Craig Richard H. Gardner Frank H. Cuetara John W. Mahinske Francis K. Larntz Robert E. Wills	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Norman N. Chapman Raymond K. Mills kenneth N. Johnson Marshall M. Windham Robert T. Brady Joseph T. Schembri James R. Dixon Carl M. Weibel Stephen Lupo	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Harold D. Gay Earl A. Johnson Walter H. Sale Favian F. Nordan Donald F. Anderson Alfred C. Beck Arthur B. Rounseville McDee Thomas Harry A. Thortsen

	A/C # 834		A/C # 164		A/C # 606		A/C # 426
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Donald L. Seesenguth Walter C. Strosser Samuel A. Plestine George E. MacDermott Raymond D. Brodin George R. Langowski Robert L. Schaaf Charles Spornick Roy E. Goldman	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Arnet L. Furr Sterling H. Book, Jr Joseph W. Andrews, Jr Leon M. Plagianos Alfredo J. Raimo Edward Rambler Warren M. Rankin Glenn M. Wisdom Reginald W. Buxton	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Franklin H. Morrell William J. Murdock 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	James J. Vizanko Paul F. Riechert George E. Schaffer Vivian C. McWorter Willis E. Moore Joseph L. Mast Matthew J. Przybysz Julian J. Rodakowski Alton T. Eason

	A/C # 101		A/C # 633		A/C # 167		A/C # 435
p cp n b tt ro bt rwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Richard E. Fitzhugh Arthur Gennari Enoch T. Naversen John Schwall Hardy L. Bell Howard Larsen Wesley R. McDonald George L. Cole William M. Thacker	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Max D. Peterson Delbert H. Lawson Myron L. Kruse Champe V. Dobler Martin Mueheam Joseph J. Darden Joseph W. Pitts James G. Lisy Mack W. Fuqua	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Scott B. Ormsby Edward A.. McNeal Theodore R. Bortel Roy E. Gleason Uay L. Saulsburry J. M. Sofranko Gordon J. Neely Ray R. Jones Karl E. Kramer	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Ernest T. Salzer Rex E. Monson Kenneth L. Post William A. Steffen Vincent A. Toth Richard F. Metrenga Benjamin W. Hamrick Jack F. Scarborough Elbert C. Conger

	A/C # 954		A/C # 088		A/C # 075		A/C # 435
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Sanford Fonnesbeck Kenneth E. Rohde Paul Moll Robert L. Scott Charles L. Wingfield George M. Kuykendall William Moore John L. Morton Edwin A. Reynolds	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Harry J. Whitman Albert O. Gilbertson, Jr Harold W. Patrick Leonard G. Stoner Joseph P. Melly Howard E. Munger William A. Scharnhorst Kenneth E. McGriff Bernard Sitek	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Oscar R. Kempf James C. Evans Robert C. Spaight Paul D. Richardson William E. Flicky John W. Ward Jeff W. Chastain Robert E. Smolik Alfred G. Wolff	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 Wilfred Finke

	A/C # 026		A/C # 706		A/C # 934		A/C # 422
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Irwin G. Forry Harmon E. Robertson John C. Muir John J. Purvis James D. Toal Francis D. Crawford William F. Norton Winfield J. Scott Virgil W. Sterner	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 Cecil B. Brantley Buford B. Lawson Stanley P, Gillespie	Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Montell C. Higgins Donald W. Johnson John O. McCaughan Fred E. Lawyer Francis J. Winder Philip G. Porter Bill C. Smigielski Russell A. Perry John B. Pawloski	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Benjamin J. Deloach Gerald W. Esser Emil F. Gallessich Vernon H. Hawbaker Harry B. Bartholomew raymond C. Batliner Warren G. Hummer Luster B. Mills James C. Parrish

	A/C # 899		A/C # 828		A/C # 018		A/C # 430
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 Robert I. Braun 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	William G. Hitchin Robert C. Reid James J. Klein Louis F. Brickman Harley J. Ellsworth Hilary A. Turley Ronald A. Weber William G. Craig Ray V. Rose	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Donald K Goss Phil B. Adrean Gerhardt Hoelzel William H. Sokolowski Peter G. Stern John A. Roe Ruben L. Hernandsz Henry M. Githens Charles O. Gentile	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Jack D. Marks Kenneth E. Yap Harold L. Kaplan Richard K. Newman Junior Schaner Anthony Villane Geroge K. Raymond William H. Shaffer Fredrick B. Weyand

	A/C #		A/C # 574		A/C # 535		A/C # 439
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt		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 John F. McGillian John J. Sweeny Harvey G. Ray	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Ralph 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 A. Jackson Gerald E. Whitman Joseph M. Geller Albert C. Williams Leon C. Johnson

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MISSION NO. 114
HENIN-LIETARD, GERMANY

25 AUGUST, 1944

With thirty-six planes already en route to Peenemunde to attack a plant manufacturing fuel for rocket fighters, the 457th was alerted for a mission to attack a plant in France, manufacturing liquid oxygen to be used in the V-2 rocket bomb. Four similar plants in the Lille area were assigned to other First Division Groups. The target of the 457th Group was located at Henin-Lietard near Douai.

Major Snow, Air Commander, flying with Captain Beicher, led the twelve planes in the mid-afternoon takeoff. The flight to the target was over a circuitous route which left England and went south around Le Havre, to approach the target from the south. At the IP, the low squadron of six ships uncovered the lead squadron as the bombing was to be done in six plane boxes.

The lead box had difficulty in picking up the target because of thick ground haze, but dropped the bombs squarely on the plant. There was one extremely large explosion and another smaller one. Black smoke shot thousands of feet into the air.

The low box did not pick up the target so a second run was made. This time the target was identified too late and when the bombs were released they fell 3000 feet away, but near a target assigned to the 301St Group. Rally and return were without incident.

CREW LOADING LIST

August 25th, 1944
Mission No 114 Target: Henin-Lietard, Germany

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748th Squadron

749th Squadron

750th Squadron

751th Squadron

	A/C # 785		A/C # 034		A/C # 567		A/C # 470
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg rwg tg	Capt Maj Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Mark R. Belcher Wilbur D. Snow Clement H. Marsden Hiram M. Drache Irwin Rosen Lyle E. Thrall Nolan V. Claxton William L. Black James B. Toney Earl S. West	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Joe D. Coleman Edward F. Salman William G. Watts Thomas S. Crowley Daniel J. Howard, Jr Robert L. Harrison George Martin, Jr Geroge B. Crockett Robert G. Smith	Capt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	William K. Doherty Charles E. Robb Bernard M. Plaut Claude H. Sullivan Ernest C. George Ancil U. Shepherd Franklin Don Melvin R. Bernhardt John J. Derling	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Raymond R. Lyons William R. Fantleroy Richard L Hamel Valeran J. Leksan Thomas M. Davis Joseph H. Jones Joseph A. Macke Allen F. Schiebel Joe T. Clary

	A/C # 591		A/C # 203		A/C # 694		A/C # Unknown
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	William H. Crawford Benjamin Gryncewicz Martin Schwartz Michael E. Baron Roy C. Schild Harold D. Harris Walter K. Marsh Stephen Kokayko Milton C. Tieman	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Robert D. Hooper John L. Fowler William J. Brandt James V. Duffy William G. Arterburn Paul O'Neil Richard P. Forney Joseph Matkowsky Virgil B. Maier	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Scott L. Williams Albert F. Porta Delos E. Bown Glenn M. Rogers Joseph Deluccia Anthony Collura Kenneth L. Gordier Marshall E. Young Paul Biesswanger	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Robert C. Cook Kaspar O. Lamvik George N. Shaffer Samuel J. Lisica Clifford A. Upton Charles A. Lindquist Robert K. Keerner Harold W. Pannell Delbert L. Bellinger

	A/C # 190		A/C #		A/C # 568		A/C #
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	Edmund G. Coomes William M. Stemach Delmar G. Spatz John A. Dahler William J. Moore Charles W. Smith James A. Conklin H. W. Kroll Walter L. Laddusaw	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt

	A/C # 948		A/C #		A/C # 748		A/C #
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 George S. Mellon Alex McCahon Joseph J. Smolinski Robert J. Stubbs	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt		Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Clayton E. Bejot Augustus J. Harris Andrew V. Solari Fernando P. Biancalana Daniel W. Richmond Norman A. Depelteau Oliver F. Orris Vinell L. Bush James H. Neelan	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt

	A/C # 574		A/C #		A/C #		A/C #
p cp n b tt ro bt lwg tg	Lt Lt Lt Lt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt Sgt	Wayne B. Tweten James Wilson John A. Franck Robert J. Maitland Norman M. Allegan William H. Carroll James A. Kolofa James G. Grantham William G. Sewell	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

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