418TH SQDN.. Crew joined the 100th 22 AUG 1944. (In the April 45 list of "Happy Warriors" M/Sgt James L. Stafford is listed with 24 sorties on his second combat tour.

The following missions of the crew of 1st Lt. Andrew J. Downing in Boeing B-17 - G #2102649, squadron markings LD-T (Lady Geraldine) based at Thorpe Abbotts Airfield, home of the 100th Bomb Gp..418th Squadron..

 

Nbr	Date	Target
01	13-Sep-44	Sindelfingen, Germany
02	18-Sep-44	Warsaw, Poland (Delivered supplies to (the Polish underground,  and landed in Mirgorod, Russia (Ukraine)
03	19-Sep-44	Szolnik, Hungary
04	25-Sep-44	Lugwigshaven, Germany
05	30-Sep-44	Bielefeld, Germany
06	2-Oct-44	Kassel, Germany
07	3-Oct-44	Nurnberg, Germany
08	5-Oct-44	Handorf, Germany
09	6-Oct-44	Berlin, Germany
10	7-Oct-44	Bohlen, Germany (birthday of Carl Neely)
11	12-Oct-44	Bremen, Germany
12	18-Oct-44	Kassel, Germany
13	19-Oct-44	Ludwigshaven, Germany
14	22-Oct-44	Munster, Germany
15	26-Oct-44	Hanover, Germany
16	2-Nov-44	Merseburg, Germany
17	5-Nov-44	Ludwigshaven, Germany
18	9-Nov-44	Saarbrucken, Germany
19	10-Nov-44	Mainz, Germany
20	21-Nov-44	Osnabruck, Germany
21	26-Nov-44	Hamm, Germany
22	29-Nov-44	Hamm, Germany
23	30-Nov-44	Merseburg, Germany
24	2-Dec-44	Coblenz, Germany
25	2-Dec-44	Coblenz, Germany ????
26	12-Dec-44	Darmstadt, Germany
27	24-Dec-44	Biblis & Babenhausen, Germany
28	27-Dec-44	Fulda, Germany
29	10-Jan-45	Cologne, Germany
30	14-Jan-45	Derben, Germany
31	17-Jan-45	Hamburg, Germany
32	20-Jan-45	Heilbronn, Germany
33	21-Jan-45	Mannheim, Germany
34	28-Jan-45	Duisburg, Germany
35	29-Jan-45	Kassel, Germany

Above mission data supplied by Carl Neely at the 1993 Little Rock Reunion....pw