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

as follows: Major Taylor, Squadron Commander, with Capt.
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Partridge and crew, in ship #357 (401 ) flew the group lead;
#116, Lt. Thompson and crew; #263, Lt. Adams and crew; #225 (Dep.
Group Lead) Lt. Hoffman and crew; #431, Lt. Holliday and crew;
#841, Lt. Lawson and crew; #939, Lt. Cochran and crew; #615, Lt.
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Dean and crew; #000, (322 ) Lt. Blanchet and crew; #379, Lt.
Brown and crew; #618, Lt. Whitten and crew. All returned safely
to base and there were no abortives.
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10 March 1945: Sinsen , Germany was the 311 mission for the
group. The railway center at Sinsen was bombed GH methods with
fair results. Thirteen ships flew the high squadron as follows:
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Squadron lead, #357 (401 ), Lt. Williams and crew; #615, Lt.
Skawienski and crew; #636, Lt. Harvey and crew; #909, Lt.
Scofield and crew; #116, Lt. Thompson and crew; #939, Lt. Cochran
and crew; #540, Lt. Martinson and crew; #431, Lt. Holliday and
crew; #379, Lt. Brown and crew; #841, Lt. Lawson and crew; #225,
Lt. Blanchet and crew; #618, Lt. Whitten and crew. All returned
safely to base and there were no abortives.
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11 March 1945: No mission was scheduled for the 11 . The
squadrons carried out ground school and training activities with
fair attendance.
12 March 1945: Dillenburg , Germany was the group’s 312 th
mission. Bombing was made on wagon repair shops in M/Y’s 500
yards north of #1 MPI. This was by the GEE-H method. Fixes at
bombs away indicate good results. Twelve ships of this squadron
flew the mission as follows: Lt. Yavis and crew led the squadron
in ship #476; #263, Lt. Adams and crew; #841, Lt. Thompson and
crew; #909, Lt. Scofield and crew; #431, Lt. Holliday and crew;
#618, Lt. Dean and crew; #379, Lt. Brown and crew; #636, Lt.
Harvey and crew; #540, Lt. Borgstrom and crew; #615, Lt. Lawson
and crew; #806, Lt. Smiekel and crew; #225, Lt. Dickson and crew.
All returned safely to base and there were no abortives.
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13 March 1945: There was no mission scheduled for the 13 .
Ground school and training activities were carried out.
14 March 1945: The completed mission to Vlotho and Osnabruck,
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Germany was the group’s 313 . The lead and low squadrons bombed
the R.R. Bridge over the Weser River by the town of Vlotho . The
high squadron bombed the marshalling yards at Osnabruck . These
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were with good results. This was the 323 ’s “stand down” in turn
so none of our crews took part. Ground school schedules were
carried out with fair attendance.
15 March 1945: For the 314 mission, Oranienburg , Germany was
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attacked. The marshalling yards there suffered the bombings of