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

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Cochran and crew; #578 (322 ) Lt. Shambaugh and crew; #640, Lt.
Adams and crew; #636, Lt. Lawson and crew; #116, Lt. Hoffman and
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crew; #707 (322 ), Lt. Holliday and crew; #841, Lt. Harvey and
crew. All returned safely and there were no abortives.
23 Feb. 1945: Meiningen and Hildburghausen , Germany was bombed
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by this group on the 23 . The primary target had 10/10ths clouds
cover. The high squadron thus bombed Hildburghausen. Thirteen
ships of our squadron took part in this mission. Squadron lead
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was Lt. Partridge in ship #754 (401 ), #939, Lt. Cochran and
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crew; #333 (322 ), Lt. Lawson and crew; #909, Lt. Scofield and
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crew; #896, Lt. Holliday and crew; #552 (401 ), Lt. Thompson and
crew; #841, Lt. Shambaugh and crew; #540, Lt. Adams and crew;
#636, Lt. Whitten and crew; #116, Lt. Hoffman and crew; #887
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(401 ), Lt. Dickson and crew; #014 (401 ), Lt. Borgstrom and
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crew; #618, Lt. Harvey and crew‘s #333 (322 ), There were two
abortives from this squadron due to mechanical failures. Ship’s
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#333 (322 ) Lt. Lawson and crew; #806, Lt. Holliday and crew.
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24 Feb. 1944: This was the group’s 300 mission on enemy targets
since our first bombing on November 7, 1942. Target for our group
on this date was Hamburg , Germany . Bombing was made on the
Blohm Voss Factory, by “GH” with an excellent run. Twelve ships
of this squadron participated in this mission. Lt. Williams and
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crew led the squadron in ship #145 (324 ), #618, Lt. Brown and
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crew; #217 (401 ), Lt. Dickson and crew; #909, Lt. Cochran and
crew; #263, Lt. Holliday and crew. Lt. Borgstrom and crew in ship
#939, aborted due to mechanical failure. All crews returned
safely to base.
25 Feb. 1945: There was no operational mission for the group so
ground school was carried out as per usual.
26 Feb. 1945: A mission was carried out to Berlin , Germany on
the railway station at Schlesischer in the eastern section of the
city. Bombing was by “GH” results unobserved. Our squadron was
“stood down”.
27 Feb, 1945: The railway traffic center at Leipzig , Germany was
attacked on this day which was our secondary bombed on “PFF” thru
10/10ths clouds, with unobserved results. Major Taylor, squadron
commander, led the group in ship #630 with the “A” crew; #806,
Lt. Skawienski and crew; #263, Lt. Adams and crew; #471, Dep.
Group Lead, Lt. Yavis and crew; #431, Lt. Holliday and crew;
#225, Lt. Dickson and crew; #939, Lt. Cochran and crew; #116, Lt.
Thompson and crew; #909, Lt. Borgstrom and crew; #379, Lt. Brown
and crew; #618, Lt. Martinson and crew; #636, Lt. Harvey and
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crew; #841, Lt. Hoffman and crew flying with the 398 group.
There were no abortives and all returned safely to base.