Masters of the Air
This article contains despoiler for Masters of the Air instalment 5 .
Summary
As portray inMasters of the Airepisode 5,the Munster Raidwas one of the most fatal mission the 100th Bomb Group went on due to the rank number of men and planer that were lose on that October day in 1943 . The Munster Raid arrive as part of Black Week , a serial publication of seven days wherein the Eighth Air Force , including the centesimal Bomb Group , embarked on various successive air missions against the Germans . Black Week induce meaning losses for the Eighth Air Force , and made the United States reevaluate its air onrush strategy .
Though the entire Eighth Air Force suffered loss during the Munster Raid on October 10 , 1943 , the 100th ’s casualty wereby far the regretful . InMasters of the Air , this is clear by how many discover grapheme are lost during the mission . For example , Joseph ' Bubbles ' Payne is killedat Munster , while Major John ' Bucky ' Egan is forced to eject from his carpenter’s plane after it miss three of its four engines . In many shipway , the Munster Raid was a turning gunpoint for the 100th . After being repeatedly pummeled , the Munster Raid take the remainder of the 100th ’s man and planes .
master key of the Air depicts the deadly anti - aircraft artillery known as the Flakkwaffe with brutish accuracy . Its origin and effectiveness make it unique .
Only 1 Of 13 Planes Returned From The Munster Raid
The most famed statistic for the 100th during the Munster Raid wasonly one of its plane returned after the foreign mission .
fell by Robert ' Rosie ' Rosenthal , the Royal Flush was the only plane that managed to fly out to Munster and return .
This is a frightful number , as 13 of the 100th ’s sheet flew to Munster . Worse , the 100th originally transmit out 17 carpenter’s plane . This was less than the average 20 - 21 planes post on missions . lot would have it that four of those plane would experience mechanically skillful offspring , result only 13 to hit Munster , and only one to return home .
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It ’s crucial to consider the encroachment of this statistic . Throughout 1943 , the 100th were experiencing big losses . Entire chunks of their squadron could be look at out in a single mission , leaving the 100th to discover new men to replace them . At times , those replacements could just as easily be killed on a drill escape . This entail that the 100th waslosing and replacing its men at a higher ratethan any other segment of the U.S. Army Air Forces . On top of that , the 100th was also lose its plane . Though some could be fixed , others were entirely unsalvageable .
36 People Were Killed & 83 Became POWs In The Munster Raid
Out of the 130 men that flew to Munster during the Munster Raid in October 1943 , 36 were killed in natural process . What this ordinarily intend is that , during the flight , they werekilled by gunfire or flak . A soldier , likely a gunner , could have been shot individually by German forces , or the plane itself could sustain damage from flak , leading to a fire or an explosion , and thus , the men ' deaths . Typically , Masters of the Airdepicts a designate plane by showing it bursting into flames after being hit with flak .
36 men from the 100th Bomb Group were pop during the Munster Raid . Notably , Capt . Joseph ' Bubbles ' Payne was not one of them . He was killed in action six months later , in April 1944 , during a dissimilar mission . Furthermore , ten of the 100th ’s men notably survived the charge : the crowd of the Royal Flush . However , as list by the100th Bomb Group Foundation , the following36 men were labeled KIAafter the Munster Raid :
phallus of the centesimal Bomb Group Who Were Killed in Action
The Planes / Crews They Were A Part of
S / SGT HAROLD E. CLANTON
M’LLE ZIG ZIG
2ND LT MAURICE E. BEATTY
SHACK RAT
2ND LT GRADY MOYLE
2ND LT REID E. GRIFFITHS
T / SGT ALFRED LOGUIDICE
T / SGT GEORGE C. BURGESS
S / SGT MIORTON LEVINE
S / SGT ANGELO J. LICATO
S / SGT SMITH J. YOUNG
2ND LT ROBERT P. KRAMER
LEONA
S / SGT DONALD M. GLAZE
S / SGT GEORGE A. WHITE
2ND LT JOHN J. GIBBONS
always YOURS
T / SGT STEFAN C. PALMER
2ND LT JEROME H. WALLACE
INVADIN MAIDEN
2ND LT RICHARD C. DODSON
S / SGT CLYDEM . WALKER
SGT HENRY A. GRATZFELD
SGT FRANK E. FETHERSTON
2ND LT EDWARD R. JONES
SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS
S / SGT CHARLES L. NESSEL
S / SGT FLOYD M. CAHALL
2ND LT WILLIAM M. BEDDOW
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2ND LT ISRAEL LEVINE
T / SGT JOHN T. SULLIVAN
S / SGT WALTER E. ZOLDAK
S / SGT SAMUEL M. HICKS
S / SGT ROBERT J. LYNCH
T / SGT ELDER E. LISCH
SWEATER GIRL
S / SGT CLARENCE C. COOMBS
S / SGT ELLLOT O. PREBLE
S / SGT WESTLEY M. FIELD
T / SGT . ORLANDO E. VINCENTI
AW - R - GO
SGT . CHARLES A. CLARK
2ND LT JOHN F. SHIELDS
PASADENA NINA
S / SGT GAETANO D. SPORTELLI
From the 100th , 83 man were captured as prisoners of state of war after the Munster Raid . In general , these were man who were able to escape their damage plane in the midst of the deputation , but werecaptured by German force play upon land . These men were then enchant to Stalag Luft III , a German captive of warfare refugee camp designed specifically for Isle of Man from the United States Army Air Force . famed prisoner of war from the 100th admit Major John Egan , who was captured after Munster .
Aside from the crowd of the Royal Flush , there is one aeronaut from the 100th who managed to duck both death and capture . Lt . John K. Justice escaped from his destroyed airplane during the Munster Raid and was taken in by the Dutch Resistance . He returned to Thorpe Abbotts months after , having been the only soldier to parachute out of the Munster Raid and not get captured by the Germans . He is yet another marvellous statistic fromMasters of the Air . On the other hand , the follow are themen who became POWsafter the Munster Raid :
Members of the hundredth Bomb Group Who Became Prisoners of War
MAJOR JOHN C. EGAN
1ST LT JOHN D. BRADY
2ND LT JOHN L. HOERR
2ND LT DAVID SOLOMON
2ND LT HOWARD B. HAMILTON
S / SGT ADOLPH BLUM
T / SGT JOSEPH E. HAFER
PVT ROLAND D. GANGWER
S / SGT JAMES A. McCUSKER
S / SGT GEORGE J. PETROHELOS
2ND LT WINTON MacCARTER
EL P’SSTOFO
2ND LT DAN BARNA
2ND LT HAROLD L. WEACHTER
2ND LT GEORGE H. ZIEGLER
T / SGT JACK C. ROGERS
S / SGT ROBERT W. SANDY
S / SGT ALEXANDER F. SAWICKI
S / SGT COSIMO A. DeMONICA
S / SGT RAYMOND J. MANLEY
S / SGT ROY D. GRAFF
2ND LT JAMES B. DABNEY , JR .
S / SGT EDWARD C. KARAMOL
2ND LT EDWARD F. CONNELLY , JR .
2ND LT HUGH S. GEIGER , JR
2ND LT THOMAS B. CASEY , JR
T / SGT DEAN O. TODD
T / SGT JAMES A. WATKINS
S / SGT FRED B. MOORE
S / SGT HARVEY F. JAMES
2ND LT EDWARD G. STORK
2ND LT JOHN S. MINERICH , JR
2ND LT ARTHUR C. TWITCHELL JR .
T / SGT LAURENCE WILLEY
S / SGT PAUL M. CAVENY
S / SGT GORDON W. SHIELDS
S / SGT DOUGLAS L. BROWN
S / SGT IRA G. TURNER
2ND LT CHARLES D WALTS
2ND LT LOUIS H. OSS
T / SGT TRAVIS L BRUMBEAU
S / SGT THOMAS F. MURPHY
SGT WILLIAM O. HIGGINBOTHAM
2ND LT CHARLES H. THOMPSON
2ND LT ROSS McEUEN
2ND LT WILLIAM J. SPROW , JR
SGT JACK STERN
S / SGT RICHARD E. DERBY
S / SGT JESSE W. COOK , JR
S / SGT DONALD E. LEECH
2ND LT RICHARD W. BROOKS
2ND LT MILTON E. HARNESS
S / SGT DAN Q. JAMES
S / SGT RICHARD R. MUNGER
2ND LT RICHARD B. ATCHISON , JR .
2ND LT WILLARD SECOR
2ND LT KENNETH BARON
2ND LT SOL GOLDSTEIN
T / SGT RUSSELL W. BENNETT
S / SGT VAN T. WRIGHT
CAPT CHARLES B.’CRANKSHAFT ” CRUIKSHANK
1ST LT GLENN E. GRAHAM
CAPT FRANK D. MURPHY
CAPT AUGUST H. GASPAR
T / SGT LEONARD R. WEEKS
S / SGT . ROBERT L. BIXLER
S / SGT JAMES M. JOHNSON
S / SGT . DONALD B. GARRISON
1ST LT JOHN F. STEPHENS
STYMIE
1ST LT HOYT L. SMITH
2ND LT RUDOLPH GRUM
2ND LT WILLIAM J. MOORE
T / SGT JOHN SHAY
S / SGT GEORGE F. KNOLLE
T / SGT MAX U. DRUDGE
S / SGT CARL E. BATTIN
S / SGT CASIMIR A. RACZYNSKI
S / SGT WILLIAM F. YOUNG
2ND LT PETER BATTISTI
2ND LT WILLIAM C. BROTHERS
T / SGT RICHARD E. WHITLOCK
T / SGT JOHN F. MCDONOUGH
S / SGT STANLEY S. STOPA
S / SGT HARRY HAFKO
S / SGT ROBERT E. BERGENDAHL
