[303rd-Talk] Looking for Tyler Weems

[harold susskind]

Pardon me:
But I just read the dialogue and I was wondering if it was the same war I flew in.  One refers to (a real Bombardier)  What is a real Bombardier? I flew 41 missions as a navigator. But I went to both schools so I was dual rated. Am I real Bombardier?  Thjere was a  i42nd mission. I flew a thousand miles out of Bermuda at night.  I dropped Blood plasma on the deck of a Swedsh ship and saved a seaman's life.  Yhr 393rd's history is well covered.  Among the sources are"  Gary Moncur's web site, Might in Flight book by Harry Gobrecht, 25 years of News letters.  If it is not in one of those--it didn't happen. Hal Susskind 

> From: wejones at eskerridge.com
> To: 303rd-talk at 303rdBG.com
> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:54:46 -0400
> Subject: Re: [303rd-Talk] Looking for Tyler Weems
> 
> 
> > > >  Of all the 303rd missions I've read about, the Magdeburg 
> mission,
> > > >  and
> > >> the collision between the 360th and 427th plane in early Apr of 45
> > >> are the two that made the greatest impression on me. Bill Jones      
> > >>   N3JLQ Sweden Maine
> > 
> > Bill,
> > 
> > The mission you are referring to above, I believe, was mission # 305 on
> > January 21, 1945.  I had also learned about this accident in researching
> > information on my father-in-law, Kirkland Price. ....
> ....
> > ..... You may click here to see his headstone 
> > http://www.303rdbg.com/cem-lo-cambron.jpg You can also read about
> > mission 305 by clicking here
> > http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/305.pdf
> 
> Thanks.  I hadn't read about that crash before.  But no, the one I was 
> referring to was in early april, ie 
> 
> http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/353.pdf   
> 
> What I found so interesting about this accident, was not so much the 
> story of the accident, but the stories connecting different people to 
> the accident. I first learned about this accident when trying to look 
> up a fellow, Ralph Johnson, who had flown with my father, a fellow that 
> my father had taken a couple pictures of. When I looked him up, I found 
> that he had been originally on the Lacker crew, ie:
> 
> http://www.303rdbg.com/360lacker.html   
> 
> One look at the picture of that crew, and the picture of the fellow 
> holding the doll, makes that accident seem special, but then I read a 
> question from a relative of an airman from the 427th, who wanted to 
> find out anything about his service, so I researched his name, and 
> found out that he had been aboard the 427th plane involved in the 
> collission.  Later, I was trying to help someone else find out 
> something about their relative, looked him up and he turned out to be 
> the Sgt Bonner.  Asked what he was doing on the plane, I found out that 
> he had been transferred to the plane because he apparently was fluent 
> in German, and served as some kind of translator.  Then, on this forum, 
> I met our own Bill Runnels, who was the original bombardier on the 
> lacker crew, but had transferred off that crew since real bombardiers 
> were generally used in lead crews. Then, I learned that the Ralph 
> Johnson that I was originally looking for, was flying as a tailgunner 
> officer observer in the lead plane in that squadron that day, and 
> witnessed his old crew going down. Each time I look up people who flew 
> with my father, I keep running into connections to the Lacker crew, 
> such as another pilot my father kept a picture of, who flew the day 
> before and after the Magdeburg mission, and later flew three missions 
> as copilot with my father.  There is a picture of this pilot on the 
> 303rdbg web page indicating that apparently he was assigned as pilot 
> with much of the Lacker crew several days before the accident, but for 
> some reason, he never flew with them. 
>   Basically, the collission just seemed to be linked to so many 
> different stories of people who might have been on that flight, and 
> people who were transferred onto that crew from other crews. I just 
> have this feeling that there are still some untold stories associated 
> with this ill fated mission.  
> 
>    
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bill Jones         N3JLQ
> Sweden Maine
> wejones at megalink.net
> http://www.megalink.net/~wejones 
>  
> 303rdBG page 
> http://www.eskerridge.com/bj/303rdbg/wwii.html 
> 
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