Coming back some do do’s passed over Jersey Island and got their formation shot up a bit but no losses. The concussion from those big bombs jostled the following planes about a bit, our bomb load was V2-500’s. About 6/10 coverage and we came in the first time at 12,500 feet so we passed over and made a 2nd pass at 8,400 ft ideal for a snafaker play. They have the Jersey and Guernsey Islands heavily fortified against air attack so we avoided those. Not much flak and only about 3 rockets thrown up at us. 3- 44 Brest peninsula after a German garrison where 25,000 Jerries are making out with stiff resistance. Time up about 7 ½ hours on oxygen about ½ to 3 hours.
4 supercharger amplifier out over channel over open camera hatch- was cool there. Were afraid we were going to have to have to ditch in channel for a while, so I got on MF/DF Section too (sic.) had four 1000 pounders and 4 incendiary clusters for a load. Lucky that there was 10/10 coverage because no fighters spotted us.
#Bomber crew landing with one wheel full#
I contacted base station from France and got two places to drop our bombs but we didn’t have enough gas to go (to) either place so we carted them back to base and landed with full bomb load on 3 engines. 3 engine shot oil out of top about 30 to 40 miles from target. 1st on Rhine river 18 miles east of Frankfurt - Storage Dump. Considered milk run by us- all missions this far were strategic missions slowly getting flak happy no battle damage.Ĥ. Crossed the North Sea and down across West Frissean Islands. Quite a few aerial bombs and hits, mission was pulled in a hurry. 30- 44 Breman 6hrs and 30 minutes – 38-100 pounders.
12 holes in ship 1past navigator’s neck 1 piece hit navigator in chest flak suit.ģ. Met a flak ship just before we crossed Denmark were 20 miles from Sweden went around East of Stetten to target. They came in our left, scattered formation, no casualties. Crossed North Sea at 2000 feet and meet another formation as we were rising through overcast. Flak accurate and plenty of it, I saw 4-17s go down also saw trail of 2 areal bombs come over leading edge of wing and leveled off and went over towards trailing edge. Flak low but plenty of it and holes in the ship.Ģ. 8hrs 25minutesflight out over North Sea past the flak corridor 20 miles west of Berlin. 24-44 Ruhland near Czechoslovakia, 10-500’s- Synthetic gas works-visual bombing-good hit. Sergeant Smiley completed his tour by successfully flying the combat missions he recorded in a notebook (handwritten as they were flown in 1944-45 and) transcribed below:ġ. The crew flew several training missions in Great Britain prior to commencing combat operations. Radio Operator and Gunner on the “Heaven Sent” Flew in B-26ģ50th Sqdn.Crew,as above,joined 100th Group on 2/8/44.Ĭrew roster of 30/9/44 shows this crew as #43 but Demarco was replaced at BTG by either T/Sgt W.G.Jarrell sn# 14049842 & S/Sgt C.L.Doyle.Ĭrew flew "HEAVEN SENT" according to Bil Jarrell, He flew 14 missions on Heaven Sent. Sgt Charles R.Cramer WG XFR To 9th Air Foce when reduced to 9 man crew. S/Sgt Angelo J.Cioffi WG CPT 10/1/45 COLOGNE T/Sgt Michael Garemko TTE CPT 10/1/45 COLOGNE T/Sgt Glenn A.Smiley ROG CPT 10/1/45 COLOGNE 1st Lt Thomas I.Anderson P CPT 10/1/45 COLOGNEĢnd Lt William M.Fratus CP CPT 10/1/45 COLOGNEĢnd Lt Gerald J.Klecker NAV CPT 10/1/45 COLOGNEġst Lt Frederick H.Schmidt BOM CPT 10/1/45 COLOGNE
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