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Key to Sortie Abbreviations

ABT - Aborted After Takeoff
CC - Combat Credit Earned
CC - Combat Credit Not Earned
CM - Completed Mission
CR - Crashed
DIT - Failed To Return, Ditched
FTR - Failed To Return
KIA - Killed In Action
LAT - Landed in Allied Territory
MIA - Missing In Action
NTO - Aircraft Did Not Take Off
RETE - Returned To Base, Attacked
RTB - Returned To Base, Did Not Attack
SCR - Aircraft Scrubbed Before Takeoff
SP-CM - Flying Spare, Completed Mission
SP-RET - Flying Spare, Returned To Base
SP-UN - Ground Spare, Unused

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384TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP (H) ARMY AIR FORCES STATION NO. 106

LOADING LISTS FOR MISSION #277 ON 28 February 1945

B-17G 42-32106 JD*R Sortie Report SP-CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Van Pelt, Charles A ⇗
CP	Gray, Fred Price ⇗
N	Murphy, Edward J ⇗
TOG	Slack, Raymond Carl ⇗
RO	Guentzel, Otto William ⇗
TT	Secrest, Marvin Victor ⇗
BT	Spradlin, Clifford Wright ⇗
TG	Den Herder, Edward (NMI) ⇗
WG	Harrison, James (NMI) ⇗

B-17G 42-37788 SO*N Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Graehl, Russell E ⇗
CP	Horrigan, Thomas James ⇗
N	Skrocki, Casimir Stanley ⇗
TOG	Berry, Ivan Carl ⇗
RO	Kajka, Frank Andrew ⇗
TT	Alderson, William E ⇗
BT	Crawford, Donald Lee ⇗
TG	Hunter, William Pierce ⇗
WG	McKee, William R ⇗

B-17G 42-97510 BK*A Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Seavey, Homer Carl ⇗
CP	McKay, James M ⇗
N	Stokes, Lee E ⇗
TOG	Tefft, Gordon Robert ⇗
RO	Plisko, Joseph Steve ⇗
TT	Barnwell, James Mortimer ⇗
BT	Tidwell, Eldes Dee ⇗
TG	Haney, Milton J ⇗
WG	Krupsky, Howard Clarence ⇗

B-17G 42-97824 SU*U Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Jackson, Taylor Hall ⇗
CP	Wright, Donald Alexander ⇗
N	Westervelt, Charles Ephraim ⇗
TOG	King, Jason E (IO) ⇗
RO	Johnson, Clyde Lawrence ⇗
TT	Ford, Charles William ⇗
BT	Garner, George Allen ⇗
TG	Thornber, Hubert Ellwyn ⇗
WG	Panici, Raymond Arnold ⇗

B-17G 42-98027 SU*Z Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
CDR	Williams, Philip Young ⇗
P	Ramsay, Walter E ⇗
N	Walker, Roy J ⇗
N	Kettler, Edgar Frederick ⇗
N	Lamark, Edward Lincoln ⇗
B	Wickander, Wallace Homer ⇗
RO	Holzbaur, Richard C ⇗
TT	Hartman, John Edward ⇗
TG	Lacey, Ray (NMI) ⇗
WG	Kotys, Joseph (NMI) ⇗

B-17G 42-102661 SU*L Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Nicolai, Edwin George ⇗
CP	Ross, Robert B ⇗
N	Parker, Gilbert Roy ⇗
TOG	Durborow, Clarence James ⇗
RO	Spearman, Eugene (NMI) ⇗
TT	Clemis, Joseph Bernard ⇗
BT	Bongiorno, Peter R ⇗
TG	Peeler, William R ⇗
WG	Whitworth, Charles Edward ⇗

B-17G 43-37843 SO*B Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Patterson, Nelton Dreward ⇗
CP	Bowman, Harold Horace ⇗
N	Nicholson, Louis Thorbjorn ⇗
TOG	Alderman, Robert Arthur ⇗
RO	Ritter, Martin Mayhon ⇗
TT	Moriarty, Ernest Condit ⇗
BT	Fickling, Forrest Ellison ⇗
TG	Yetter, William H ⇗
WG	Kalinoski, Frank F ⇗

B-17G 43-37971 JD*T Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Henry, Robert Tyson ⇗
CP	Bentley, Philip Arthur ⇗
N	Bouchard, Wilfred Eugene ⇗
TOG	Lucas, Gabe Roy ⇗
RO	Fluesmeier, Arsdel Louvaine ⇗
TT	Graper, Elmer Worling ⇗
BT	Bielskis, Peter Julius ⇗
TG	White, Albert D ⇗
WG	Bilka, Steven Gabriel ⇗

B-17G 43-38016 SU*R Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
CDR	Carnes, Joe Ross ⇗
P	Ultcht, John Preston ⇗
N	Hightshoe, Clarence Cecil ⇗
N	Green, Billy A ⇗
B	Long, Noal Edward ⇗
RO	Deeg, John Vincent ⇗
TT	Pobega, Rudolph (NMI) ⇗
BT	Alexander, Virgil Lawrence ⇗
TG	Kozup, Andrew (NMI) ⇗
WG	Payne, Albert M ⇗

B-17G 43-38062 SU*A Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Wright, Edward S ⇗
CP	Von Grimm, Robert NMI ⇗
N	Fell, Charles Linwood ⇗
TOG	Arnold, Robert Baxter ⇗
RO	Kovach, Joseph William ⇗
TT	Jaeger, Melvin George ⇗
BT	Soules, Robert A ⇗
TG	Holmes, Garland Francis ⇗
WG	Zude, Byron Alvin ⇗

B-17G 43-38501 BK*C Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Tatulis, Charles Paul ⇗
CP	Stern, Vernon Mark ⇗
N	Steffen, Willis William ⇗
B	Payne, Lloyd Clarence ⇗
RO	Hanson, Charles Henry ⇗
TT	Quon, Mingwah Albert ⇗
BT	White, Donald Edward ⇗
TG	Werner, Richard H ⇗
WG	Peck, Hubert Raymond ⇗

B-17G 43-38548 BK*M Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Smith, Jack L ⇗
CP	Schaaf, Herbert Henry ⇗
N	Todd, Joseph W ⇗
TOG	Tribbey, William Johnny ⇗
RO	Marberg, Roy Kurt ⇗
TT	Loader, Kenneth Walter ⇗
BT	Nead, Harry VanHorn ⇗
TG	Milkovich, John (NMI) ⇗
WG	Hunt, Harry B ⇗

B-17G 43-38588 BK*D Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Sharp, Alan E ⇗
CP	Gray, Harold Reginald ⇗
N	Berwald, Raymond Edward ⇗
TOG	Myers, Ben Rice ⇗
RO	Minter, Louis Arlington ⇗
TT	DeMattei, Laurence Charles ⇗
BT	Volpe, Roland (NMI) ⇗
TG	Meyette, Raymond Perley ⇗
WG	Albro, Bernard Thomas ⇗

B-17G 43-38630 SO*G Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Lewis, Charles Allyn ⇗
CP	Schmansky, Richard Edward ⇗
N	Young, Dewey W ⇗
TOG	Nestor, Edward J ⇗
RO	Summers, Wayne Norman ⇗
TT	Quigley, Q A (IO) ⇗
BT	Adams, Frank Robert ⇗
TG	Dillon, William James ⇗
WG	Ulrich, Theodore H ⇗

B-17G 43-38647 SO*D Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
CDR	Thacker, Clarence Lewis ⇗
P	Abbott, William H ⇗
N	Cohen, Harvey S ⇗
B	Fisher, Earl Wellington ⇗
RO	Herr, Richard Lee ⇗
TT	Laughlin, Wallace Leroy ⇗
SJ	Schuster, Harold Ludwig ⇗
BT	Nieman, Donald F ⇗
TG	Strycek, Joseph John ⇗
WG	Kristof, Laddie (NMI) ⇗

B-17G 43-38752 SO*O Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Whitesides, John Boyce ⇗
CP	Moxley, John Carper ⇗
N	Keyser, William Ross ⇗
TOG	Steinberg, William Herman ⇗
RO	Dube, Roland Raymond ⇗
TT	Sayers, Francis Asbury ⇗
BT	Shields, Howard Earl ⇗
TG	Dupas, Emmett George ⇗
WG	Bergner, Lee Ray ⇗

B-17G 43-38757 SO*L Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Griffin, Robert Stanley ⇗
CP	Geller, Herbert Seymour ⇗
N	Runyon, Royal Arthur ⇗
TOG	Jeffrey, Donald Walter ⇗
RO	Phillips, Philip J ⇗
TT	Marshall, Robert Freeman ⇗
BT	Irons, William Rudolph ⇗
TG	Manbeck, Robert Franklin ⇗
WG	Hickey, Thomas James ⇗

B-17G 43-38800 SO*K Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Shuff, Charles Bernard ⇗
CP	White, William F ⇗
N	Birney, Robert Charles ⇗
B	Abbott, Charles R ⇗
RO	Harrison, Erwin Jack ⇗
TT	Henricks, Bernard Joseph ⇗
BT	Lesko, George Joseph ⇗
TG	Cramer, George Edward ⇗
WG	Britton, Joseph Rodman ⇗

B-17G 43-38974 SU*H Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Kowats, Daniel Frank ⇗
CP	Whitlow, Lloyd William ⇗
N	Hesko, Alfred Dominic ⇗
TOG	Campbell, William R ⇗
RO	Peel, Ralph Edward ⇗
TT	Dunn, William Stanley ⇗
BT	Petrosky, Raymond John ⇗
TG	Moerdyk, Herbert William ⇗
WG	Trolin, Neil Bernard ⇗

B-17G 43-39019 JD*A Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Connor, John Michael ⇗
CP	Robinette, Mack (NMI) ⇗
N	Bellavance, Paul Joseph ⇗
TOG	Hollenbeck, Claude (NMI) ⇗
RO	Fulton, Max Johns ⇗
TT	Earl, Willard George ⇗
SJ	Ehr, Willard (NMI) ⇗
BT	Asby, Sidney Lee ⇗
TG	Ainsworth, Donald James ⇗
WG	Burke, Hal Eugene ⇗

B-17G 43-39053 BK*D Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Donnell, Alonzo McWilliams ⇗
CP	Villa, Albert Anthony ⇗
N	Troiano, Frank Anthony ⇗
B	Ryan, Patrick A ⇗
RO	Hensarling, Kinard Dale ⇗
TT	Hanna, Paul Eugene ⇗
BT	Palmer, Ward Allen ⇗
TG	Matthews, Frederick Donald ⇗
WG	Condon, James Robert ⇗

B-17G 43-39060 BK*F Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Hatch, William Alva ⇗
CP	Wiley, Vernon Lee ⇗
N	Besel, Robert Andrew ⇗
TOG	Summers, William Richard ⇗
RO	Garner, William Perry ⇗
TT	Henderson, Ralph Alman ⇗
BT	Worley, John Thornton ⇗
TG	Lady, Manfred Henry ⇗
WG	Ewing, Robert P ⇗

B-17G 43-39131 BK*B Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Rush, Joseph Henry ⇗
CP	Schneider, Andrew J ⇗
N	Slivka, William J ⇗
TOG	Parker, Kenneth J ⇗
RO	Fleming, John William ⇗
TT	Stockstill, Thomas J ⇗
BT	Harris, Robert B ⇗
TG	Didion, Gilbert William ⇗
WG	Miller, Oscar Colquitt ⇗

B-17G 43-39138 SU*G Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Turner, Willard Jerome ⇗
CP	Smith, George W ⇗
N	Naum, Robert Edwin ⇗
B	Robinson, Coit McLean ⇗
RO	Ruderman, Joshua Herman ⇗
TT	Davenport, Robert Walter ⇗
RCM	Plover, Robert Patrick ⇗
BT	Mollica, John Palmer ⇗
TG	Apedaile, Vernon Bernard ⇗
WG	Stover, Robert Harry ⇗

B-17G 43-39164 SU*F Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Kramer, William Leo ⇗
CP	Wolfe, Jack S ⇗
N	Burk, Paul E ⇗
B	Edwards, Thomas M ⇗
RO	Whear, Harold Lewis ⇗
TT	Scrivner, Dwight Arnold ⇗
RCM	Groom, William Emmett ⇗
BT	Pfeiffer, Jack Edward ⇗
TG	Krauss, Keith A ⇗
WG	Lukosavich, Francis John ⇗

B-17G 43-39197 BK*K Sortie Report SP-CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Ostnes, Leif Robert ⇗
CP	Leighton, Gerald Eugene ⇗
N	Purchase, George Alan ⇗
B	Robinson, John V ⇗
RO	Daning, Bernard Lawrence ⇗
TT	Riordan, Victor Joseph ⇗
BT	Beck, Harrison Gerald ⇗
TG	Burns, Harry Worren ⇗
WG	Hamblin, Robert George ⇗

B-17G 43-39203 BK*L Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Smith, Eliot Henry ⇗
CP	Seipold, Charles Frederick ⇗
N	Henly, Harry Richard ⇗
TOG	Gustitus, Clarence Charles ⇗
RO	Hodge, Robert Merrill ⇗
TT	Birkholz, John Melvin ⇗
BT	Marlatt, Guy Clair ⇗
TG	Beesley, Delmar James ⇗
WG	Martin, Thomas Allison ⇗

B-17G 43-39236 SO*A Sortie Report SP-CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Scherokman, Edward (NMI) ⇗
CP	McClelland, Gerald W ⇗
N	Eng, Howard Won ⇗
TOG	Barr, Daniel Francis ⇗
RO	Adams, Patrick J ⇗
TT	Wilkens, William John ⇗
BT	Ancel, Orval Joseph ⇗
TG	Ross, Arthur Woodland ⇗
WG	Chesney, Michael (NMI) ⇗

B-17G 44-6514 SO*Q Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Goble, Charles D ⇗
CP	Willis, Carl W ⇗
N	Herndon, William Franklin ⇗
TOG	Holbrook, Howard Ueles ⇗
RO	Hallock, William Skeanes ⇗
TT	Bernot, Mike (NMI) ⇗
BT	Gegus, John Frank ⇗
TG	York, Carroll Raymond ⇗
WG	Scholle, George L ⇗

B-17G 44-6590 SU*J Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Moorhead, Harris Leroy ⇗
CP	Culhane, Emmett Patrick ⇗
N	Bauer, Frank Martin ⇗
TOG	Highley, Derek Rowland ⇗
RO	Frenz, Lawrence Philip ⇗
TT	Gazaway, Otto Wayne ⇗
BT	Westling, Robert Arnold ⇗
TG	Cruggs, Merlin Westley ⇗
WG	Lysaght, James Henry ⇗

B-17G 44-6892 SU*D Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Pierce, Oscar William ⇗
CP	Espey, Albert Nolan ⇗
N	Claflin, Richard Edwin ⇗
TOG	Rozkuski, William Bernard ⇗
RO	Palmer, Eldo L ⇗
TT	Taylor, Charles E ⇗
BT	Foster, Erwin Vernon ⇗
TG	Polowy, Thaddeus (NMI) ⇗
WG	Neubauer, Robert Paul ⇗

B-17G 44-6898 SO*H Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Ferrell, Oran Luther ⇗
CP	Frankenbery, Lloyd M ⇗
N	Pylman, John Henry ⇗
TOG	Greeley, Raymond May ⇗
RO	Paschall, Joseph Harry ⇗
TT	LeMay, Jack Ray ⇗
BT	Hewitt, Milton Terrel ⇗
TG	Blevins, Donald Hillman ⇗
WG	Himmler, Francis Frederick ⇗

B-17G 44-6909 BK*H Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Richardson, George P ⇗
CP	Bastianelli, John Michael ⇗
N	Zimmerman, John Hubert ⇗
TOG	Cropp, Thomas Edison ⇗
RO	McCollum, Norris Lafayette ⇗
TT	Hernandez, Miguel (NMI) ⇗
SJ	Scimeca, Frank John ⇗
BT	Kangas, James Kermit ⇗
TG	Boyer, Lyle Joseph ⇗
WG	Wasserman, Noa (NMI) ⇗

B-17G 44-6923 JD*J Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Cathey, George Warlick ⇗
CP	Hinds, John W ⇗
N	Hertz, Morton (NMI) ⇗
TOG	Casper, Delmar Rulon ⇗
RO	Roy, John G J ⇗
TT	Smith, Alfred Clem ⇗
BT	Duncan, David (NMI) ⇗
TG	LaRue, Ray Edward ⇗
WG	Kalan, Frank M ⇗

B-17G 44-8408 JD*C Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Tebo, Clerance L ⇗
CP	Hall, Freeman Alexander ⇗
N	Trombley, Wilfred Joseph ⇗
TOG	Brief, Leonard Thomas ⇗
RO	Ry's, Henry A ⇗
TT	Waldron, Jack Theodore ⇗
SJ	Waggoner, Harold Lewis ⇗
BT	Nance, Dale Richard ⇗
TG	Williams, John Otto ⇗
WG	Davis, Dixon (NMI) ⇗

B-17G 44-8541 BK*Y Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
CDR	Bean, Donald Wesley ⇗
P	Smith, Jack M ⇗
N	Calnitz, Jerome (NMI) ⇗
N	Jones, Albert Eugene ⇗
N	Allmon, Lorne Lyle ⇗
B	Arnold, Vern L ⇗
RO	Benson, Thomas Joseph ⇗
TT	Nastick, Henry Pete ⇗
TG	Gordon, Omar Leslie ⇗
WG	Berthold, Charles W ⇗

B-17G 44-8608 SU*B Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Reed, Verlin Dean ⇗
CP	Johnson, Howard K ⇗
N	Weiss, Morris B ⇗
TOG	Vermillion, Eugene Carroll ⇗
RO	Grimes, Paul John ⇗
TT	Bobbitt, Charles Rufus ⇗
BT	Leighton, Robert Raymond ⇗
TG	Clements, William H ⇗
WG	Gariepy, Ernest Joseph ⇗

B-17G 44-8649 BK*X Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
CDR	Shelley, John Keith ⇗
P	Owens, Robert Clare ⇗
N	McCaine, Jack Mezick ⇗
N	Seydel, Philip (NMI) ⇗
N	Cavanaugh, William Daniel ⇗
B	Hoech, Julius Florence ⇗
RO	Soto, Roman Serrano ⇗
TT	Vickers, Charles Dunnington ⇗
WG	Nelson, Marion A ⇗
OBS	Huff, Charles Andrew ⇗

B-17G 44-8679 JD*D Sortie Report CM CC
Position	Name	Status
P	Wilson, Robert L ⇗
CP	White, Clinton Gregory ⇗
N	Schempp, George Christian ⇗
TOG	Maguire, John H ⇗
RO	Smith, George B ⇗
TT	Krug, John C ⇗
BT	Belcher, Marvin Alford ⇗
TG	Nighswonger, Clyde Eldon ⇗
WG	Wehner, Charles Jacob ⇗