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Plane
Name: Hound Dawg
Squadron: 1107th Bomb Squadron (H)
Crew: 07
Date: Dec. 19, 1942
Target
City: Romilly, AD
Did the
B-17 reach the target: Yes
Did the
B-17 Bomb the target:
Yes
Bomb Run:
Off, 10%
Aircraft
damage: Intercom
out; Right Wing Gear inoperable; BIP – Right Wing.
Damage
points: Shot down.
Aircrew:
Pilot:
Major Mac Presley – BO - Resc
Co-Pilot:
2LT Cornelius Mitchell – KIA
Bombardier:
2LT Vincent O’Neill - KIA
Navigator:
2LT Victor Riley - KIA
Engineer:
S/SGT Peter Burdette - KIA
Radio
Operator: SGT George Wilson - KIA
Ball Turret
Gunner: SGT Malcolm North - KIA
Port Waist Gunner: SGT Alex Fisk – BO - Resc
Starboard Waist
Gunner: SGT Stanley Gibbons - KIA
Tail
Gunner: SSGT Art Boyd – KIA
Bombardier:
FO Walter Adams - LW
Radio
Operator: Corp James La Forge – SW - IH
Starboard
Waist Gunner: PFC Richard Sprague – SW – Recovers
Names
& positions of replacement crew members:
Pilot: 2LT
Vernon Franklin
Co-Pilot:
FO Clyde Mullen
Bombardier: 2LT
Glen Beardsley
Navigator:
FO Zachary Erhart
Engineer:
Corp Herman Westerberg
Radio
Operator: Corp Lewis Whitehouse
Ball Turret
Gunner: Corp Lester Bulloch
Port Waist
Gunner: Corp Maurice Sugarman
Starboard
Waist Gunner: Corp Richard Dessler
Tail
Gunner: PFC Gordon Fincham
Enemy AC
claimed:
Right Waist
Gunner SGT Stanley Gibbons claims 1x 109 KIA
Bombardier
2nd Lieutenant Vincent O’Neill claims 1x 109 KIA
Engineer
SSGT Peter Burdette claims 1x 190 KIA
(The
following two are not from the same mission, but here as examples)
Radio
Operator Sergeant George Wilson claims 1x 190 FCA (-1)
Tail Gunner
Staff Sergeant Art Boyd claims 2x 109 KIA; 1x 109 FBOA (-2); 1x 190 FCA (-1)
Promotion
Recommendations: NA
Medal
Recommendations: NA
Mission
Description:
We saw
Major Presley bomb the target, and getting hit by flak and fighters. She left
the formation to escort LT Ansell in Designed Destruction who had to leave
because of a damaged oxygen system.
We heard
that light flak opened up and Hound Dawg took a direct hit in the wing and went
down NE of Paris.
Reported by 918th crew members at debriefing