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[June 1943]
532nd Bomb. Sq., 381st Bomb Group (H) - WAR DIARY
Submitted by Lt. G.T. Kelley

JULY 1943

2. Mission over Le Mans, France.

10. Mission over Villacoublay, France (Paris).

14. Mission over Amiens-Glisy,  France.

17. Mission over Geringhausen, Germany.

21. The following were assigned: 2nd Lts Jack Pry, Cecil W. Quinley, Roger Burwell, Theodore Snyder: Sgts Edward LaPointe, Alfred Johnson, Russell Frautschi, Irvin Smith, Martin Brandt, Carl Baird.

23. Mission over Heroya, Sweden.

24. Mission over Hamburg, Germany. Three crews are mission in action: Capt Joe E. Alexander, Lts William C. Crowley, Jack W. Wemmer, Harold Hellman; Sgts James C. Nance, George H, Orin, Peter D. Garvan, Walter F. Ferens, James E. Heist, George R. Johnson.

Lts Jack H. Owen, William E. Bohan, Liston A. Bascon, Frank Ronzio; Sgts; Kenneth K. Recton, Roy L. Slater, Charles K. Winn, William E. Lindenmeyer, Clarence C. Asher, Robert L. Cummins.

Lts  William R. Moore, Dale G. Wendte, Philip P. Dreiseszun, James H. Houck; Sgrs Edward W. Usher, John E. Ivey, Edgerton P. Zahm, William L. Fourtier, Joseph G. Kralik, John M. Watkins.

25. Mission over Hamburg, Germany.

26. The following combat crew was assigned: 2nd Lts Theodore Moon, James Hamer, Steven Fritz, Bernard McNichol; Sgts John Ernharth, Wilbur Alsheimer, Michaek Fleming, Howard Wood, Paul Maltfield, John Wheeler.

28. Mission over Altenbuna, Germany.

29. Mission over Kiel, Germany.

30. Mission over Kassel, Germany. Missing in action: Major Robert F. Post, (squadron commander), Lts  Guerdon Humason, Leroy N. Hames, William G. Tsialas; Sgts William H. Kithcart, Albert L. Parker, Frank Fabiano, Walter J. Anderson, Harold E. Robbins; 2nd Lt Alfred Casaly.

Captain Briggs was assigned to the 532nd as commanding officer

[June 1943 ]