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380th Bomb
Group Association
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Compiled by Barbara J. Gotham September 1999 - Updated August 2006 |
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380th Bomb
Group Association
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Compiled by Barbara J. Gotham September 1999 - Updated August 2006 |
INTRODUCTION
This Part of the 380th Bomb Group (H) WWII Wartime Roster of personnel concentrates on the personnel of the Flight Crews of the Group. The same considerations as noted in Part I concerning personnel apply. We have divided the presentation here into four parts:
A List of Named Aircraft Commanders and of Pilots who served as Aircraft Commanders subsequent to their pilot service.
A List of the personnel on each crew. When the Pilot of the crew later took over all or part of the crew from the earlier Aircraft Commander, these are listed together. Thus this is a list of the air crews, not of the Aircraft Commanders and the crews who flew with them.
A List of those personnel such as Photographers who flew with a large number of crews.
A List of those personnel for whom no crew assignment has been found to date. Most of these personnel joined the 380th singly and may always have flown as replacement crew members. Many joined at or near the end of hostilities and may not have flown combat at all.
From early in the combat mission period the several operations staffs assigned crew numbers to each individual crew. These numbers were changed frequently as the size of the squadrons increased and the previous number allocation was insufficient. The number assigned to each crew in this roster is that which they held for the longest time. Because of the above changes, it will be noted that several crews bore the same crew number.
Assignment and use of these numbers ceased abruptly on May 15, 1945. Thus crews arriving at the 380th after this date will bear the legend (NL) meaning, "none listed," or no number mentioned in the mission records.
The authors regret any mistakes that may have crept into this compilation and we take full responsibility for such. We will welcome any comments or corrections from the readers of this book and the other parts of this compilation, and will make every effort to correct them. Therefore, we hope you will let us know of any such errors.
For a list of the errors found to date, please click here.
Every attempt has been made to get permission to use photographs, drawings, information, etc., when the sources were known. If copyrighted material appears here, please let us know so permission can be requested and credit given. If you have any photos, corrections, or other information to add to this history, please send email to Barbara Gotham at 380th.ww2@gmail.comor use our Comment Form.
We will incorporate all corrections and additional data which we receive in this compilation as maintained at this website.
ISBN 0-9672447-1-4
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 99-73366
Copyright © 1999 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
208 Chippewa Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906-2123 USA
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Flight Crews of the Staff of Group Headquarters |
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Flight Crews of the 528th Squadron |
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Flight Crews of the 529th Squadron |
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Flight Crews of the 530th Squadron |
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Flight Crews of the 531st Squadron |