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

ombed. This was a successful mission. There were no abortives,
and all ships returned safely to base. Four from this squadron
took part as follows: #7234, Lt. Knight and crew, #7075, Lt.
Bruce and crew; #7270, Lt. Ransberger and crew; #7173, Lt.
Collier and crew. 1/Lt. John Lloyd, Bombardier, 1/Lt. Gerald
Schottmiller, Navigator; S/Sgt. Arthur Huber, Bombardier; S/Sgt.
Earl Williamson, Jr. Flexible Gunner; and S/Sgt. George O.
Ferrell, Tail Gunner, completed their tours of duty on this
mission. They have been assigned to other duties. S/Sgt. Huber
went on thirty-one missions; having been assessed one extra due
to some sort of failure on the mission of March 18, 1944. S/Sgt.
Ferrell completed his tour of duty without the required
identification tags. For some reason or other, they were never
delivered to him, but the were ordered in the routine manner.
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21 May 1944: The 21 , being a Sunday and as there was no
operational mission scheduled, the men had a day off. Many of
them, both the air and ground crews really needed the rest for
all personnel have been working hard for the past two weeks.
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22 May 1944: Kiel, Germany was bombed on the 22 . The mission
was successfully completed. Several ships from this squadron
participated as follows: #7234, Capt. Kuehl and crew; #7075, Lt.
Kerb and crew; #2116, Lt. Ransberger and crew; #1542, Capt.
Ranzoni and crew; #7173, Lt. Gardner and crew; #7304, Lt. Pryor
and crew; #7563 Lt. Maxwell and crew; #1909, Lt. Klinger and
crew. All the above ships returned safely to base. They dropped
their bombs, and there were no abortives.
Ground School was well attended by men not flying on this
mission. Two ships flew a practice-bombing mission. They dropped
forty 100-lb. Practice bombs.
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23 May 1944: On the 23 , Saarbrucken, Germany, was bombed.
Results of the bombing were unobserved as it was done by
pathfinder. Eight ships of this squadron took part as follows:
#2490, Capt. Samuelson and crew, leading the group; #2116, Lt.
Riser and crew; #7075, Lt. Maghee and crew; #7173, Lt. Gardner
and crew; #7276, Lt. Kerr and crew; #1542, Lt. Miller and crew;
#9975, Lt. Collier and crew; and #7304, Lt. Pryor and crew. The
latter ship aborted due to trouble with the oxygen system. Credit
was given to the pilot for an oxygen abortive. That means it was
a malfunction of the oxygen equipment and not a fault of
personnel on the crew.
1/Lt. Val B. Maghee, Pilot, completed his tour on this date. He
has volunteered for another tour of duty, but will be given some
time off, in the zone of the interior, before starting on his
next tour.