380th

Bomb Group

380th Bomb Group Association
World War II Veterans Group

WE WENT TO WAR

PART VII:  KEEP 'EM FLYING


Part A:  380th Ground Staff Directly Involved in Maintenance, Arming, and Servicing of the 3380th Bomb Group
               Aircraft in World War II

Compiled by Theodore J. Williams and Barbara J. Gotham
September 2004


Contents


INTRODUCTION


Parts II, V, and VI of this series present the flight crews, the planes they flew, and the combat missions of each.  Search methods permit the derivation of the mission list of each individual flight crew.

In developing Parts V and VI, it was attempted to develop the corresponding ground staff for reach aircraft to complement the flight crew listing.  Unfortunately, the available records for the 380th do not relate individual records to particular aircraft except for some ferry flights which were made to New Guinea and Corunna Downs, West Australia.  The Hortons in their history also mention several of the aircraft ground crew chief by name, but only for the most famous aircraft.

We have therefore reformatted much of the personnel listing of Part I of the series to allow us to list all aircraft ground crew by MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) or SSN (Service Specialty Number).  Please see the MOS listing in Part IV of this series for a complete set of these which were used in the 380th.

This part covers the 380th ground staff directly involved in maintenance, arming, and servicing of the group's aircraft.

Source:  Horton, Best in the Southwest, page 500.



ISBN: 0-9672447-6-5

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-73366

Copyright © 2004 by Theodore J. Williams

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photo-copying, recording, or otherwise, for commercial purposes, without the prior written permission of the publisher. However, private use for historical research or related purposes is hereby granted on condition that credit be given to this publication and its authors.

Published by:

Theodore J. Williams
West Lafayette, IN USA



CONTENTS:  PART VII-A

Introduction (which is this page)
NOTES Concerning EACH LISTING
GLOSSARY OF abbreviations and acronyms
Acknowledgments
REFERENCES
The Authors

BY SPECIALTY

ARMAMENT: Officers
  Enlisted Men
COMMUNICATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ENGINEERING: Officers
  Enlisted Men - Aircraft
  Enlisted Men - OTHER EQUIPMENT
OPERATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ORDNANCE: Officers
  Enlisted Men

BY SQUADRON

group

ARMAMENT: Officers
  Enlisted Men
COMMUNICATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ENGINEERING: Officers
  Enlisted Men - Aircraft
OPERATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ORDNANCE: Officers
  Enlisted MeN
    528th
ARMAMENT: Officers
  Enlisted Men
COMMUNICATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ENGINEERING: Officers
  Enlisted Men - Aircraft
  Enlisted Men - OTHER EQUIPMENT
OPERATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ORDNANCE: Officers
  Enlisted Men

    529th

ARMAMENT: Officers
  Enlisted Men
COMMUNICATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ENGINEERING: Officers
  Enlisted Men - Aircraft
  Enlisted Men - OTHER EQUIPMENT
OPERATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ORDNANCE: Officers
  Enlisted Men

    530th

ARMAMENT: Officers
  Enlisted Men
COMMUNICATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ENGINEERING: Officers
  Enlisted Men - Aircraft
  Enlisted Men - OTHER EQUIPMENT
OPERATIONS: Officers (nONE)
  Enlisted Men
ORDNANCE: Officers
  Enlisted Men

    531ST

ARMAMENT: Officers
  Enlisted Men
COMMUNICATIONS: Officers
  Enlisted Men
ENGINEERING: Officers
  Enlisted Men - Aircraft
  Enlisted Men - OTHER EQUIPMENT
OPERATIONS: Officers (none)
  Enlisted Men
ORDNANCE: Officers
  Enlisted Men

Click here to download Part VII-A (in Adobe Reader PDF format).


Part VII-B:  380th Ground Staff Directly Involved in Vital Support Services -- 380th Bomb Group in World War II


Go to the history project/website contents page to connect to the other parts of this history.


Return to the 380th Bomb Group Association homepage


Last updated: 27 August 2015