349TH SQDN.. CREW JOINED THE 100TH ON 06 APR 1945

Crew may have flown one or two missions before end of war but no records have shown up yet to support this theory…mpf

PRACTICE MISSION:
APRIL 13,1945 LEECH 313 S HARDSTAND # 20, D-SQDN

PRACTICE MISSION:
COMBAT MISSION SCRUBBED, APRIL 19,1945 LEECH 532 G HARDSTAND # 15, C-SQDN

CHOWHOUND MISSION:
MAY 3,1945, LEECH 681 V HARDSTAND # 24, A-SQDN

CHOWHOUND MISSION:
MAY 5,1945, LEECH 015 N HARDSTAND # 23, C-SQDN

AIRCRAFT FLOWN BY LT LEECH CREW:
44-8532 XR-G KLEEN SWEEP
43-38313 XR-S LIL BUTCH

ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE CREW:
CREW CHANGES, AFTER HOSTILITIES, CP 2ND LT. WILLIAM T. GROOVER TRANSFERRED TO THE W.GRISWOLD SMITH CREW TO REPLACE SMITH CREW CP 2ND LT. ROBERT W. SMITH JR. WHO WAS TRANSFERRED OUT OF THE 100TH BG IN EARLY JULY, 1945...2ND LT GROOVER, AFTER HOSTILITIES TRANSFERRED TO Hut # 13 WAS ON W.G. SMITH CREW (SMITH also in Hut #13) UNTIL OCT, 1945 WHEN AIRCRAFT DEPARTED THORPE ABBOTTS...ALSO JOSEPH J. HILBER TG ON THE LEECH CREW SHARED HUT # 33 WITH THE SMITH CREW SGT'S... Jack O'Leary