The 10 man crew of "Stormy Weather"

 The 24th. of May 1944

Pilot 

Captain

Robert Blaine Clay

Brigham City

Utah

Co pilot

1st. Lt.

Frank Hatten

Ranger

Texas

Navigator

1st. Lt.

Marshall Ray Pullen

Pittsburg

Texas

Bombardier

1st. Lt.

George Walker Arnold

Seattle

Washington

Top turret

T/Sgt.

Charles Bernard Jilcott

Spokane

Washington

Radio 

T/Sgt.

Frank Heward Belsinger

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania

Left waist

S/Sgt.

Daniel Harvey Surprise

Wichita

Kansas

Right waist

S/Sgt.

Franklin Leroy Travis

Newton

NorthCarolina

Ball Turret

S/Sgt.

Michael De'Marie

White Plains

New York

Tail gunner

1st. Lt.

James Hareld Wimmer

Omaha 

Nebraska

 

 

351st. Bomb Group

509th. Bomb Squadron

 

B-17G 42-38005 ”Stormy Weather” missions

   

 Mission No. 

Date 1944

Target  

Pilot

1

21/1

V-bombe site 

Lt. D. E. McCafferty

2 29/1 Frankfurt Lt. M. A. Brooksby  
3 30/1 Brunswick Lt. C. E. Wolcott  
4 4/2 Frankfurt Lt. R. B. Clay
5 11/2 Frankfurt Lt. T. E. Myers
6 20/2 Leipzig  Lt. M. A. Brooksby  
7 2/3 Frankfurt Lt. M. A. Brooksby  
8 4/3 Bonn Lt. W. R. Logan  
9 6/3 Berlin Lt. A. Bartzocas  

10

18/3

Landsberg

Lt. M. A. Brooksby  

11

27/3

Tours

Lt. W. R. Logan  

12 11/4 Arnimswalde Lt. C. E. Wolcott
13 19/4 Kassel Lt. M. A. Brooksby  (Mission leader)
14 20/4 V-Bomb site Cap. D. L. Harris  
15 22/4 Hamm Lt. J. S. Nesmith  
16 26/4 Brunswick

Cap. R. B. Clay  (Mission leader)

17 27/4 V-Bomb site

Cap. M. A. Brooksby  

18 1/5 V-Bomb site Lt. P. G. Anderson  
19 4/5 Berlin Cap. M. A. Brooksby  
20 7/5 Berlin Cap. R. B. Clay
21 9/5 Luxemburg Cap. M. A. Brooksby (Mission leader)
22 245 Berlin Cap. R. B. Clay (Mission leader)

                                                                            

Mission 18

Two missions flown that day. Cap. R. B. Clay was mission leader on B-17 with serial no. 42-97193

“Star Duster”

 

Mission 19

Weather recall, mission credited