COMMENTS & NOTES
MEMO 1:
CREW
2ND LT GEORGE MORASCO P FEH
2ND LT RICHARD M. PREWITT CP FEH
2ND LT NOBERT R. SHERMAN NAV FEH
2ND LT EDWARD W. CUDDY BOM FEH TAPS: 13 FEB 1988
T/SGT EARL B. FRENCH ROG FEH TAPS: 21 JUN 1974
T/SGT GORDON J. KLEHAMER TTE FEH
S/SGT JOHN H. DAY BTG FEH
S/SGT HOLLIS F. BAILEY WG FEH
S/SGT THOMAS W. BOOZE TG FEH
418TH SQDN.. CREW, AS ABOVE, JOINED THE 100TH ON 09 JAN 1945.
This Crew flew aircraft 43-38525 LD-A "Miss Conduct"
Miss Conduct, List of Missions from the diary of S/Sgt Thomas Booze
(supplied by Tracy Booze, Son)
25 Missions plus two food drop missions.
6 Feb 45 Liepzig, Germany 24,000ft
14 Feb 45 Chemnitz, Germany 23,500ft “Saw my first plane go down”
17 Feb 45 Frankfurt, Germany 20,000ft
19 Feb 45 Munster, Germany 23,000ft “Heavy Flak”
20 Feb 45 Nurmberg, Germany 24,000ft
22 Feb 45 Triberg, Germany 20,000ft
23 Feb 45 Treuchtlingen, Germany 15,000ft
24 Feb 45 Bremen, Germany 24,000ft “Roughest yet”
26 Feb 45 Berlin, Germany 26,000ft “Not bad”
3 Mar 45 Brunswick, Germany 23,500ft “Chaff ship” “Attacked by jets” “Lead ship hit by jets and blew up”
7 Mar 45 Siegen, Germany 23,000ft
9 Mar 45 Frankfurt, Germany 23,500ft “Rough as hell”
11 Mar 45 Hamburg, Germany 25,500ft
17 Mar 45 Plauen, Germany 27,000ft“Lost two engines over Plauen. Lost altitude fast and dropped ball turret and everything else we could.
Landed in Belgium”
19 Mar 45 Jena, Germany 23,000ft “Easy”
22 Mar 45 Ahlhorn, Germany 19,000ft “Milk run”
23 Mar 45 Unna, Germany 23,000ft
24 Mar 45 Steenwisk, Netherlands 13,500ft
31 Mar 45 Zeitz, Germany 23,500ft “Visual and rough as hell”
3 Apr 45 Kiel, Germany 25,000ft “Not bad”
4 Apr 45 Kiel, Germany 24,500ft “Little worse than yesterday”
6 Apr 45 Liepzig, Germany 25,000ft
7 Apr 45 Buchen, Germany 15,000ft “Me109s and jets attacked and wrecked group”
8 Apr 45 Eger, Czechoslovakia 15,000ft “Milk run”
9 Apr 45 Munich, Germany 23,500ft “Milk run”
CHOWHOUND MISSIONS (food drops)
3 May 45 Hilversum, Netherlands 300ft “Flew food to Dutch”
5 May 45 Hilversum, Netherlands 100ft “Mercy mission to Holland”
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100th BOMB GROUP TAPS REPORT
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Submitter's Name: Tracy Booze
Submitter's Email: dolfan72@comcast.net
Submitter's Relationship: Child
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Veteran's Name: Thomas Wayne Booze
Death Date: 07 December 2004
Veteran's Unit: 418th
Veteran's Position: Tail Gunner
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Family Contact Information: Norma Booze (865) 414-3379
202 Regal Towers
Maryville, TN 37804
Tracy Booze (303)809-9498
15911 E. Lehigh Cir
Aurora, CO 80013
Comments: Tom was the tail gunner on the George Morasco crew that joined the 100th in January 1945. The flew aircraft #43-38525, Miss Conduct and completed 25 missions. Tom rejoined the Army after the war as a combat engineer and later went to OCS. He retired in 1965 from the Army Corp or Engineers at the rank of Captain. He then went on to work for Eastern Airlines for eighteen years. He is survived by his wife Norma, three sons, and six grandchildren.
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