S/SGT Lorenzo D. BISHOFF |
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UNIT: 350th BOMB Sqdn | POSITION: BTG | |
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Comments1: GROUNDED DUE TO ILLINESS |
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MEMO 1:CREW MACR #68l #Mlcrofiche #225 2nd Lt Thomas D. Hummel P POW 17/8/43 Regensburg 2nd Lt Michael C.Doroski CP POW 17/8/43 Regensburg 2nd Lt Archie S.Depew NAV POW 17/8/43 Regensburg 2nd Lt Norman Brewster BOM POW 17/8/43 Regensburg S/Sgt John E.Devich TTE Injured in accident on base S/Sgt Richard E. Bowler TTE KIA 17/8/43 Regensburg S/Sgt Nelson O.Gunnar WG POW 17/8/43 Regensburg S/Sgt Lorenzo D.Bishoff BTG Grd Illiness S/Sgt Francis T. Stafford BTG POW 17/8/43 Regensburg S/Sgt Donald J. Meeker ROG POW 17/8/43 Regensburg S/Sgt Kenneth T.O'Connor WG KIA 17/8/43 Regensburg S/Sgt Gordon A.Williams TG POW 17/8/43 Regensburg 350th Sqdn. Crew,as above,joined the 100th Group 14/7/43. The first replacement Crew in the 350th BS. A/C 42-30311 LN-T On the Regensburg mission. this crew was flying as left wing to Roy Claytor who was leading the second element of the low squadrin. Truly "tail end Charlie" to not only the 100th Group but the entire Regensburg force. Attacked by e/a about 10 minutes before reaching Nurenburg,Hummel's plane was seen to"blow up" but some chutes were seen. On this final flight of 17/8/43 Devich & Bishoff were replaced by S/Sgt Richard E.Bowler & S/Sgt Francis T.J.Stafford. Bowler was KIA and Stafford became a POW. J.E.Devich had sustained a broken wrist and other injuries when one dark night he ran his bicycle into a ditch near the base. "THEY NEVER HAD IT SO G0OD" p.75 notes that ". . . . a last man,Bishoff, was later removed from the crew for hospitalization and his place taken by a spare gunner." See also TNHISG p.81 re Dick Bowler. First mission for this crew was 26/7/43 Trondheim,;Norway.Then Rostock,Ger.28/7/43,Keil,Ger. 2/8/43, Warnemunde,Ger. 5/8/43 and Lille,France 15/8/43 See letter 6/4/87 from T.D.Hummel Eyewitness report: "Saw Hummel blow up about 10 minutes before reaching Nurenburg at Bad Mergerheim." Lt.J.K.Justice "Hummel's A/C blew up 20 minutes before target. three chutes seen". Lt.B.A.DeMarco Sgt. Bowler was badly wounded by ME lO9 and probably died during descent in chute or upon landing. Sgt.O'Connor,it is believed by crew members did not jump although able to do so. Lt. Doroski said that O'connor had remarked to him that he was "afraid to ever jump from the plane". This was the fifth mission for O'Connor and the second for Bowler, Mission List of 2nd Lt Thomas D. Hummel Crew (from 2nd Lt Michael Doroski 2002) DATE TARGET A/C NUMBER & NAME COMMENT 1. 24/7/43 TRONDHEIM, NORWAY 25/7/43 WARNEMUNDE, GERMANY 230047 SWEATER GIRL ABORT-BOLT STUD MISSING 26/7/43 HANOVER, GERMANY 25878 BADGER BEAUTY ABORT-ENGINEER GOT SICK,VOMITED IN OXYGEN MASK 28/7/43 OSCHERSLEBEN,GERMANY 25878 BADGER BEAUTY ABORT-BLOWN SUPERCHARGER 2. 29/7/43 WARNEMUNDE, GERMANY 23233 OUR BABY 3. 30/7/43 KASSEL, GERMANY 23233 OUR BABY 4. 12/8/43 WESSELING, GERMANY 25878 BADGER BEAUTY 5 15/8/43 MERVILLE & LILLE, FR 230311 6. 17/8/43 REGENSBURG, GERMANY 230311MEMO 2:
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