b24_207.jpg (8150 bytes)KLIPPERT CREW
207th Squadron


CREW NOTES
  Pilot Co-Pilot Bombardier Navigator Nose
Gunner
Engineer Radio
Operator
Waist
Gunner
Belly
Gunner
Tail
Gunner
1 in 44BG Klippert Rice Newby Michaels x Noigebauer Pearson Hardt Christianson Hanson
2 in 44 BG Klippert Rice Newby Michaels x Noigebauer Pearson Hardt Christianson Hanson
14 Klippert Rice Newby Michaels
(KIA)
x Noigebauer
(IAR 80/81)
(109)
Pearson Hardt Christianson Hanson
(SW)
15 Klippert Rice Newby Clare x Noigebauer Pearson Hardt
(LW)
Christianson Wright
16 Klippert Rice Newby Clare x Noigebauer Pearson Hardt Christianson Wright
17 Klippert Rice Newby Clare x Noigebauer Pearson Hardt Christianson Wright
(190) (110)
18 Klippert Rice Newby Clare Miller Noigebauer Pearson Hardt Christianson Wright

 

MISSION NOTES
  Target Type Aim Damage Notes
1 Italy       unknown stats. With 44BG
2 Sicily       unknown stats. With 44BG
14 Ploesti, Rumania oil On 30% 1 SW sent home, 1 KIA. 2 enemy aircraft shot down
15 Amiens, France railyard On 30% 1 LW
16 Tours, FR airfield On 50%  
17 Paris, FR industry On 40% 2 enemy aircraft shot down
18          

 

PERSONNEL RECORD
Name Rank Position Date of
Assignment
Status Missions Kills Notes
Kurt
Klippert
1LT Pilot 24 Jun 43   6  
Received Silver Star on mission 14.
(Pyote, Texas)
Ken
Rice
1LT Co-Pilot 24 Jun 43   6  
Received Silver Star on mission 14.
(Fifty-Six, Arkansas)
Scott
Newby
2LT Bombardier 24 Jun 43   6  
Received Silver Star on mission 14.
(Shiloh, Georgia)
Mike
Clare
2LT Navigator 05 Aug 43   3   (Burdett, Kansas)
Steve
Michaels
2LT Navigator 24 Jun 43 KIA 3   Purple Heart
Received Silver Star and Purple Heart
on mission 14.
(Mays Chapel, Maryland)
John
Noigebauer
SSG Engineer 24 Jun 43   6 2
Received Silver Star on mission 14.
Shot down b17luftwaffe.jpg (1655 bytes) ME 109
Shot down b17luftwaffe.jpg (1655 bytes) IAR 80/81
(Chebanse, Illinois)
Patrick
Miller
SGT Nose Gunner 10 Sep 43   0   (Fairmount, Indiana)
Dave
Pearson
SGT Radio Operator 24 Jun 43   6  
Received Silver Star on mission 14.
(Brewster, Minnesota)
Paul
Hardt
SGT Waist Gunner 24 Jun 43   6   Purple Heart
Received Silver Star on mission 14.
Received Purple Heart on mission 15.
(Caledonia, Ohio)
Carl
Christianson
SGT Belly Gunner 24 Jun 43   6  
Received Silver Star on mission 14.
(Caspian, Michigan)
Dave
Wright
SGT Tail Gunner 06 Aug 43   3 2 Shot down b17luftwaffe.jpg (1655 bytes) FW 190
Shot down b17luftwaffe.jpg (1655 bytes) ME 110
(Waverly, Tennessee)
Dan
Hanson
SGT Tail Gunner 24 Jun 43 sent
home
3   Purple Heart
Received Silver Star and Purple Heart
on mission 14.
(Stratford, Wisconsin)

 

Player:
Ken Rice, USA

DIARY
Our crew trained in Nebraska in the fall of 1942. By June of 43 we had completed all out training and prepared to go overseas. We named the plane after Pilot Klippert’s girlfriend. Early on the morning of June 25th, 1942, we began our flight overseas. Our route took us down to Florida where we were outfitted with extra fuel, rations and life rafts. We also were carrying SSgt’s  Dave Johnson and Bill Witmann, along with their tool kits-they were to join the ground crews of the Bomb Group we were yet to join-and so far, none of us knew who that was. The Captain had sealed orders that we opened once we left Pensacola. Our flight took us down to Brazil where we refueled and did maintenance, then we hopped the Atlantic for Africa. After a 4 day flight that included landing in Tunisia and Casablanca, we joined the 44th BG outside Benghazi. Boy, was it hot! The 44th , however, welcomed us rather coldly…later we realized that it wasn’t coldness, it was just that nobody wanted to be close friends with new guys-it was easier in case they were shot down, which happened a lot.

  The cool reception wasn’t all we had to worry about. On top of requalifying as a crew with the 44th, we had to contend with desert life. The heat, sand, bad water and worse rations took their toll on both the plane and us. Speaking of the plane, we had to fight to keep her. She was a new E-model and the older crews-the ones with Majors and LTC’s as pilots- wanted her badly. We managed to keep her- but that’s another story.

  We flew several practice missions and two real ones against Sicily- we bombed Ok, but saw no enemy fighters. We continued to fly practice missions-long low level stuff that had the rumor mongers fairly bursting with the new “poop” every day. We were told to keep our mouths shut and continue to train.

 The big day finally came on the last day of July, 1943. We were briefed for the next days mission-a long flight followed by a low level strike against an oil refinery in Ploesti, Rumania. Our target was something called a ‘cracking plant’, designated White V.
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