Dailies of the 323rd - the 91st Bomb Group!

Ground school and training activities were carried out by combat
men not flying on this mission.
T/Sgt. Charles J. Justin, Engineer/Gunner, completed his tour of
thirty missions and was assigned to another base.
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14 May 1944: There was no mission on the 14 , it being Sunday.
There was no ground school, but there was a practice mission with
five ships flying formation.
15 May 1944: Today, there was a mission scheduled with Orly
Airdrome in France as the target. Due to adverse weather
conditions, it was “scrubbed”. Some local flying was done in the
afternoon, and an extensive ground school schedule was carried
out.
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16 May 1944: On the 16 , the same target was scheduled for
attack. The still unfavorable weather prevented it. Ground School
and training activities were carried out by all crewmembers.
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17 May 1944: On the 17 , the mission scheduled for Rotterfeld,
Germany was “scrubbed”. Ground school and training activities
were carried out on a limited scale.
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18 May 1944: On the 18 , there was no mission scheduled.
Extensive training activities and ground school were carried out.
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19 May 1944: Berlin, Germany, was the target for the 19 . This
was a successful mission. Twelve ships of this squadron
participated as follows: #1542, Capt. Ranzoni and crew; #079, Lt.
Collier and crew; #7504, Lt. Bruce and crew; #2116, Lt. Maziarz
and crew; #7304, Lt. Ransberger and crew; #7563, Lt. Maxwell and
crew; #7234, Capt. Kuehl and crew; #1909, Lt. Klinger and crew;
7040, Lt. Miller and crew; #7173, Lt. Gardner and crew; #7075,
Lt. Riser and crew; #7276, Lt. Mosley and crew. All ships
completed the mission except two.
Ship #7504 aborted due to the fact that the pilot believed he
would have an insufficient amount of gasoline to complete the
mission.
Ship #7563 aborted due to the fact or rather failure of the
exhaust stack on #2 engine causing loss of manifold pressure and
excess cylinder head temperature due to hot exhaust gasses
blowing on the thermo coupler. This was an engineering abortive.
Pilot and crew not held responsible.
No members of the crews were injured on this mission.
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20 May 1944: On the 20 , a target at Villacoublay, France. Was