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

our aircraft although by “PFF”. Results were from poor to
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excellent. Twelve ships took part as follows: #852 (322 ) Capt.
Reid, Group Lead and crew; #540, Lt. Borgstrom and crew; #263,
Lt. Adams and crew; #630, Lt. Brown and crew; #431, Lt. Holliday
and crew; #116, Lt. Thompson and crew; #806, Lt. Skawienski and
crew; #225, Lt. Smiekel and crew; #615, Lt. Comstock and crew;
#841, Lt. Lawson and crew; #618, Lt. Templeton and crew; #909.
Lt. Blanchet and crew. All ships and crews returned safely to
base and there were no abortives.
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16 March 1945: There was no mission scheduled for the 16 .
Ground school and training activities were carried out.
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17 March 1945: Bohlen , Germany was the group’s 315 mission.
The synthetic oil plant was bombed “PFF” unobserved results.
There was much crowding by other formations on the bomb run.
Thirteen A/C participated in this mission as follows: Squadron
lead, #471, Lt. Williams and crew; #540, Lt. Borgstrom and crew;
#618, Lt. Whitten and crew; #615, Lt. Shambaugh and crew; #806,
Lt. Martinson and crew; #116, Lt. Thompson and crew; #263, Lt.
Cochran and crew; #909, Lt. Dickson and crew; #636, Lt. Harvey
and crew; #841, Lt. Lawson and crew; #225, Lt. Comstock and crew;
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#964 (322 ), Lt. Templeton and crew; #431, Lt. Smiekel and crew.
All crews and ships returned safely to base and there were no
abortives.
18 March 1945: Again Berlin was attacked by our group. Bombs were
dropped on the Schlesischer and East Marshalling yards. Results
were unobserved. Twelve ships of this squadron participated in
the mission as follows: #630, Squadron Lead, Lt. Yavis and crew;
#540, Lt. Borgstrom and crew; #618, Lt. Whitten and crew; #379,
Lt. Brown and crew; #806, Lt Dickson and crew; #116, Lt.
Martinson and crew; #225, Lt. Skawienski and crew; #431, Lt.
Thompson and crew; #909, Lt. Comstock and crew; #841, Lt. Lawson
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and crew; #333 (322 ), Lt. Templeton and crew; #636, Lt. Harvey
and crew. All returned safely to base and there were no
abortives.
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19 March 1945: Plauen , Germany was the 317 mission for the
group. The synthetic oil plant at Bohlen was the assigned target.
Due to cloud cover, the group bombed the number 3 target which
was Plauen by H2X methods with unobserved results. The 323rd Squadron took their turn and were “stood down” for this mission.
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20 March 1945: There was no mission scheduled for the 20 .
Ground school and training activities were carried out with fair
results.
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21 March 1945: On the 21 of March, the group completed their