Original
100th Sam R. Turner Crew photographed in the states before
assignment to the ETO. This crew ditched in Lake Constance September 6,
1943. They were all interned
with the exception of Joseph F. Maloney who was KIA. The
crew were on their 16 mission...pw
100th Photo Archives
The Sam Turner Crew stateside,
planning a flight. Crew flew aircraft named
"RAUNCHY".
Photo provided by Vance R. "Mark"
Boswell
The Sam Turner Crew after landing
with major battle damage on the August 12, 1943 mission to
Bonn.
1ST LT
SAM R. TURNER
P
Interned
6-Sep-43
Stuttgart
2ND LT
WILLIAM R. FREUND
CP
Interned
6-Sep-43
Stuttgart
2ND LT
MORRIS WEINBERG
NAV
Interned
6-Sep-43
Stuttgart
2ND LT
VANCE R. BOSWELL
BOM
Interned
6-Sep-43
Stuttgart
T/SGT
HAROLD W. SMITH
TTE
Interned
6-Sep-43
Stuttgart
T/SGT
CARMINE A. GALLO
ROG
Interned
6-Sep-43
Stuttgart
S/SGT
JOSEPH F. MALONEY
WG
KIA
6-Sep-43
Stuttgart
S/SGT
CARTER F. THORNTON
WG
Interned
6-Sep-43
Stuttgart
S/SGT
DEWITT J. WEIR
WG
Interned
6-Sep-43
Stuttgart
S/SGT
NORMAN F. BRETT
TG
RFS
--
--
351ST SQDN.. AN ORIGINAL 100TH CREW.
NORMAN F BRETT TAIL GUNNER ON
ORIGINAL CREW GROUNDED AFTER 7 MISSIONS REPLACED ON THIS
MISSION BY JAMES SPEAKMAN
STATEMENT BY SAM TURNER: "I
crashed - landed on Lake Constance on 06 Sep 1943 at 1030
hours approximately one and one fourth miles from land The
plane remained afloat for about four minutes The life rafts
failed to work properly The plane was completely demolished
After the plane crashed I saw the ball turret gunner who had
been killed by a 20mm shell He was left in the plane On 05
Oct 1943 the plane was raised by the Swiss and the ball
turret gunner was removed and buried "
Turner was slightly wounded in
the chest by a 20mm fragment He was interned until March
1944 at which time he returned to the U S A
According to Morris Weinberg
Joseph Maloney was hit by two 20mm's between the shoulder
blades He was buried at Bad Ragaz and later moved to
American Cemetery at Musterlingen Switzerland
On this sixteenth mission for
the crew Vance Boswell was wounded and his chute torn to
pieces
Mission log courtesy of William
Freund in 1995 Paul west
Sam Turner Crew
#
MISSION
DATE
COMMENT
01
Bremen Germany
June 25 1943
--
02
LeMans France
June 26 1943
--
03
St Nazaire France
June 28 1943
--
04
LeMans France
June 29 1943
--
05
La Pallice France
July 4 1943
--
06
Hamburg Germany
July 17 1943
(Aborted -- engine failure)
07
Trondheim Norway
July 24 1943
--
08
Warnemunde Germany
July 25 1943
--
09
Oschersleben Germany
July 28 1943
--
10
Bonn Germany
August 12 1943
(major damage to "Raunchy")
11
Woensdrecht Belgium
August 19 1943
(not flown in "Raunchy")
12
Evreux-Fauville France
August 24 1943
--
13
Watten France
August 27 1943
V-1 Rocket No Ball
14
Meulan les Merueaux France
August 31 1943
--
15
Paris France
September 3 1943
(Difficult mission for the
crew)
16
Stuttgart Germany
September 6 1943
(Interned in Switzerland)
Special Orders March 2 1944
The Special Orders cut in
Switzerland on 2 March 1944 designating seven U S Army
officers to be exchanged against seven German aviators also
interned in Switzerland
1st Lt William Cantwell was a
B-17 pilot of the 99th Bomb Group based in Tunisia. His
plane was shot down on 1 October 1943 while on a mission to
Regensburg, Germany. Only five of his plane’s ten-man crew
parachuted out and landed safely in the Alps where they were
picked up by Swiss soldiers.
1st Lt Donald Oakes piloted a
B-17 of the 100th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force. He landed
at Dubendorf near Zurich on 17 August 1943 while on a
mission to Regensburq, Germany. His was the first B-17 --
though not the first plane -- to land in Switzerland.
1st Lt Martin Andrews piloted a
B-17 of the 306th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force. He made
a forced landing at Magadino, Switzerland while on a mission
to Stuttgart on September 6 1943.
1st Lt Alva Geron, piloting a
B-24 flying out of Tunisia, was on a mission to Wiener
Neustadt, Austria when he was forced to make a landing in a
farmer's field at Thurnau, Switzerland on 13 August 1943.
His was the first American plane to land in Switzerland.
1st Lt Sam Turner, piloting a
B-17 of the 100th Bomb Group of the 8th AF, was on the same
mission to Stuttgart as Andrews. He was forced to ditch in
the Lake of Constance where his dead ball turret gunner went
down with the plane.
2nd Lt Robert Titus was a
navigator of the 95th Bomb Group of the 8th AF. When his
plane went down over France on the 6 September 1943 mission
to Stuttgart, he parachuted safely down, evaded capture, and
crossed the French-Swiss border. Because he had walked into
Switzerland he was considered an "Evadee " not an "Internee
" and could move freely around Switzerland.
2nd Lt Stephen Rapport piloted
a B-17 of the 390th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force. He was
on the same mission to Regensburg as Lt Oakes when battle
damage forced him to make a crash landing in a farmer's
field near Utzendorf, Switzerland.
S/SGT JOSEPH F. MALONEY IS BURIED IN THE EPINAL AMERICAN
CEMETERY. PLOT B, ROW 2, GRAVE 13
Codes and Abbreviations
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Crew Position
AE
Aerial Engineer
BOM (B)
Bombardier
BTG (BT)
Ball Turret Gunner
COM (COM/P)
Command Pilot Position
CP
Copilot
LWG (LW)
Left Waist Gunner
MIC (MO) (RAD)
Radar Nav (Mickey Operator)
MO (MIC) (RAD)
Radar Nav (Mickey Operator)
NAV (N)
Navigator
NG
Nose Gunner / Togglier
P
Pilot
RAD (MIC) (MO)
Radar Nav (Mickey Operator)
ROG (R)
Radio Operator / Gunner
RWG (RW)
Right Waist Gunner
TTE (E)
Top Turret Gunner / Engineer
TG (T)
Tail Gunner
TOGG (TOG)
Togglier / Nose Gunner
WG (W)
Waist Gunner
Crew/Aircraft Status
CL
Crash landing
CPT (CT)
Completed tour
DUR
On base for duration of War
EVA (EVAD) (EVADEE)
Evader / Evaded
ESC
Escaped
FEH
Flying at end of hostilities
GND
Ground personnel
IIC
Injured in crash
INT
Interned in neutral country
KIA
Killed in action
KIC
Killed in crash
FTR
Failed to return
LWA
Lightly wounded in action
MIA
Missing in action
NOC (NC)
No other category or status
POW
Prisoner of war
REC
Rescued
RFS
Removed from flight status
RZI (RZOI)
Returned to zone of interior
SAL
Salvaged
SWA (SWIA)
Severely wounded in action
UNK
Unknown
WIA
Wounded in action
XTF
Transferred out of unit
XFER
Transferred out of group
Target
AC
Aircraft
AF
Airfield
CLS
Claims of enemy destroyed
LR
Last resort target
MT
Motor transport
MY
Marshalling yard
NOBALL
V1 buzz / V2 rocket site
ST
Secondary target
TA
Target area
TO
Target of opportunity
Aircraft Database
BOMB
Aircraft struck by bomb
DOW
DOW Field, Bangor, Maine
E&E
Escape and evasion report number
EVD
Evaded capture - Escaped
FTO
Failed to take off
FTR
Failed to return
FTR LOC
Failed to return - landed on continent
FTR MID
Failed to return - mid-air collision
FTR OW
Failed to return - last seen over water
INT
Interned in neutral country
KIA
Killed in action
KIS
Killed in service - non combat
LAG
Luftwaffe aerial activity
MACR
Missing Air Crew Report number
MID
Mid-air collision
NCS
Non-combat sortie
POW
Prisoner of war
RE?
Returned early - reason unknown
REM
Returned early - mechanical
REO
Returned early - not mechanical
REP
Repatriated
RES
Returned early - scheduled spare
RFO
Returned from sortie
RMC
Returned to military control
STA 139
Thorpe Abbotts Airfield, UK
TOA
Takeoff or assembly incident
WIA
Wounded in action
WIS
Wounded in service - non combat
351st
aircraft "RAUNCHY" 230057 EP-D on a bomb run with the Sam R.
Turner crew.. Photo provided by Mark Boswell, son of Vance R.
Boswell, BOM. (100th Photo Archives)
"RAUNCHY" (100th Photo Archives)
Crew
members of the Sam R. Barr crew carrying S/Sgt Joseph F. Moloney
(100th Bomb Gp) from the church at Bad Ragaz, Switzerland on October
5, 1943. The permanent US Internment site located at Adelboden, was
named "Camp Joseph F. Moloney" in his honor. The Pallbearers: Front
Position left to right: Lt. Sam R. Turner and T/Sgt Harold W. Smith:
Rear Position left to right: Lt. Morris Weinberg and T/Sgt Carmine A.
Gallo.(100th Photo Archives)
Services
for US Airmen KIA over Germany - Oct 5, 1944. Bad Ragaz,
Switzerland. (100th Photo Archives)
Services
for US Airmen KIA over Germany - Oct 5, 1944. Bad Ragaz,
Switzerland. (100th Photo Archives)
230057
EP-D being pulled out of Lake Constance by the Swiss after the Sep 6,
1943 ditching. Sam R. Turner, Pilot. (100th Photo Archives)
Video clip from 1943 showing B17 crew of Raunchy,
courtesy of the 100th Bomb Group organization
I'm not sure which plane
taking off is dad's, but the one landing near the end is his. It was
after a mission to Bonn, Germany in August of 43 where they got pretty
shot up and barely made it back to England. Interestingly, it forced
them to miss the next mission - one where 60 planes were shot down.
Chris
This is also the same
mission that the minister talked about at Dad's funeral.
351st
aircraft "RAUNCHY" 230057 EP-D on a bomb run with the Sam R.
Turner crew.. Photo provided by Mark Boswell, son of Vance R.
Boswell, BOM. (100th Photo Archives)
Crew
members of the Sam R. Barr crew carrying S/Sgt Joseph F. Moloney
(100th Bomb Gp) from the church at Bad Ragaz, Switzerland on October
5, 1943. The permanent US Internment site located at Adelboden, was
named "Camp Joseph F. Moloney" in his honor. The Pallbearers: Front
Position left to right: Lt. Sam R. Turner and T/Sgt Harold W. Smith:
Rear Position left to right: Lt. Morris Weinberg and T/Sgt Carmine A.
Gallo.(100th Photo Archives)
Services
for US Airmen KIA over Germany - Oct 5, 1944. Bad Ragaz,
Switzerland. (100th Photo Archives)
Services
for US Airmen KIA over Germany - Oct 5, 1944. Bad Ragaz,
Switzerland. (100th Photo Archives)
230057
EP-D being pulled out of Lake Constance by the Swiss after the Sep 6,
1943 ditching. Sam R. Turner, Pilot. (100th Photo Archives)