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2nd Lt. Carroll W. Woldt

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The Carroll W. Woldt Crew
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2ND LT CARROLL W. WOLDT P CPT 11-Jul-44 Munich
2ND LT KENNETH H. KNOWLTON CP CPT 2-Oct-44 Kassel
2ND LT JOHN R. TOWNSEND NAV CPT 17-Jul-44 Montgournoy
2ND LT RAYMOND D. ROSSMAN BOM POW 28-May-44 Magdeburg
S/SGT JAMES C. ARNOLD TTE CPT -- --
S/SGT DONALD A. SACHS ROG CPT -- --
SGT EDWARD J. FOULDS BTG CPT -- --
SGT RALPH M. NORMAN WG CPT -- --
SGT ALLEN G. LANGHOFF WG CPT -- --
SGT JOSEPH J. SELVENIS TG CPT -- --

351ST SQDN.. CREW, AS ABOVE, JOINED THE 100TH ON 17 MAR 1944

This crew flew aircraft 107007 "SHE-HASTA" for some twenty-six of their missions. History has assigned the "Runaway Gun" incident of July 11, 1944 that killed BTG S/Sgt Homer Parish to this B-17. This is in error, Lt. Woldt reports flying 107007 on the July 11, 1944 Munich mission and his aircraft suffering damage to it's main gear struts from the 50 cal fire from a neighboring plane.

This mix up was most probably caused by an error on the 11 Jul 44 Crew Roster, where Lt Woldt is shown as flying aircraft 97128, a number that I find no matching 100th aircraft for-- Lt Ricci is erroneously listed as flying 107007-- Likely he flew aircraft #42-31256 "King Bee." It was with the Ricci crew that S/Sgt Parish flew on 11 Jul 1944 and was Killed by the runaway ball turret's 50 Cal. The error is confirmed by Mr. Woldt and members of his crew from personal records as well as their memory of the incident...pw

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