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

Lt. Samuelson and crew. The latter ship failed to drop its bombs
and did not reach the target area, but it went quite far into
enemy territory. Enemy opposition was slight, either from
weakness at that point or for fear of our guns and the fighter
escort which went along to deal with them in case they did start
a fight. Total attendance at ground school was thirty three man
hours.
4 Feb. 1944: Next day, Frankfurt, Germany was the object of
attack once more. This target had been high on our list for
several days. Perhaps fate decided this as its day to be
plastered by our bombers for all in this squadron went
over the target and dropped their bombs with fairly good results.
There were seven of them from this squadron: ship #774, Capt.
Thompson and crew; ship #040, Lt. Hackleman and crew; ship #815,
Lt. Harding and crew; ship #027 (322nd ship), Lt. C. M. Williams
and crew; ship #712, Lt. Ward and crew; ship #939, Lt. Register
and crew; and ship #739, Lt. Wood and crew. Very little enemy
opposition was encountered except for flak coming up around the
target area. It did very little damage to our ships and none to
personnel. In the past, this has been known as a "rough one" due
to enemy fighters in that area, but now it seems to a lot of the
men as a sort of "milk run" mission. thirty seven man hours
of ground school was done by personnel who did not take part in
this mission. This was a big day for S/Sgt. Venceslaus M. Sikich,
waist gunner on Capt. Thompson's crew, as he finished his tour of
twenty-five missions which means that he was relieved from combat
flying. He was given the DFC for his good work.
5 Feb. 1944: For the third day in succession, another mission was
flown. The target was Avord, an Air Field, about 125 miles south
of Paris, France. The group was led by Capt. Bramble as Air
Commander in our ship #504, with Lt. McFarland as pilot. Six of
our ships took part: ship #504, Lt. McFarland and crew, Capt.
Bramble and crew; ship # 585, Lt. Maziarz and crew; ship #580,
Lt. W. E. Raid and crew; ship #739, Lt. Samuelson and crew; ship
#815, Lt. Pickard and crew; and ship #748, Lt. Sutherland and
crew. All dropped their bombs with excellent results. As none
aborted, or failed to reach the target, the squadron felt proud
of the day's work. When a ship takes off on a mission and then
has to turn back, neither its crew nor the ground crews feel
happy about it. To them, it is a lot of hard work and effort
wasted. This was the twenty-seventh mission for T/Sgt. Henry J.
Streets, a veteran tail gunner who has done all his missions with
this squadron.
6 Feb. 1944: On the 6th, a mission was undertaken against another
airfield in France near Nancy/Essay. Nine ships of this squadron