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~ The 91sT BomtiardmentGroup

Marion HI Havelaar

W[TH William N I Hess

Foreword by Roger A, Freeman

Schiffer Military/Aviation History

Atglen, PA

· in World War II

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T he Authors would like to express their sincere appreciation

and gratitude to all of those who so generously assisted in

this history. We would like to particularly recognize Hilary

"Bud" Evers, 9Ist Bombardment Group Historian, for all his input

and advice, to Joseph Harlick for his labor and cooperation in mak-

ing so many wonderful photos available, and to Paul Andrews for

his excellent listings of the 91st Group aircraft. Many thanks are

also due our many contributors; Bill Adams, Roger W. Armstrong,

Larry Baird, Thomas E. Bass, Boeing Historical Library-Audio

Visual Archives, Wilfred Bouchard, John Bunch, Paul Burnett,

Herbert Carpenter, Robert Casey, Bill Conlon, Leonard Cook, Dale

Darling, John D. Davis, Hubert Donahue, Eighth Air Force Memo-

rial Museum Foundation, Jeffrey Ethell, Paul Fishbourne, Vincent

Fonke, Roger Freeman, "Tex" Frye, Jack Gaffney, Leonard

Gamblin, Charles George, Charles R. Giauque, Richard Hamilton,

O. Harper, w.w. Hill, Charles Hudson, Robert E. Kuhnert, Bob

Lammers, Alfred J. Lanfear, Roger Layer, Bill Leisure, Paul Limm,

Cecil G. McConnell, Gerald McDowell, Allen Morey, Marvin

Nichols, Jack Padgett, Earl Pate Jr., G. William Potter, William

Pulliam, Mike Rheam, Armando Sinibaldo, Jackie Starcer, Russell

Strong, Robert Strane, Charles V. Welbes, and David W. Williams.

If there are others that we have missed, please accept our gratitude.

For all that gave so much encouragement to this project, our appre-

ciation.

Marion H. Havelaar

William N. Hess

This book is dedicated to all the men ofthe 91st Bomb Group

and especially to those who gave the supreme sacrifice

so that the rest ofthe world might be free oftyranny.

Dust jacket artwork by Steve Ferguson, Colorado Springs, CO.

SOME DON'T GO DOWN EASY

On February 21, 1944, the second day of the "Big Week"

raids on the Wehrmacht aviation industry, the Ragged Irregu-

lars lost Miss Ouachita, and she didn't go down easily. Be-

fore reaching the target at Munster, she became separated from

the 323rd Bomb Squadron elements high over Hanover where

she was ravaged in at least four firing passes by enemy inter-

ceptors, possibly the Focke-Wulf 190s of JG 11. Gunners

Morningstar and Klem were seriously wounded, and engi-

neer Brostrom was killed. The enemy fighters having spent

their 20mm ammo, drew alongside for one fateful moment,

flew a curious escort to the shattered bomber before she

reached the relative safety of the clouds far below. Pilot 2Lt.

Osterberg's only hope was a low level run for the Dutch coast.

Ninety minutes later, touch Miss Ouachita would suffer

a final encounter with the Fw 190s of JG 1, ten miles short of

the Dutch border. In the head-on attack flown by ace Gruppen-

kommandeur Heinz Bar, co-pilot Beran was killed and

Osterberg was wounded. She bellied in near Lingen, still one-

hundred miles from the English Channel. Two days later,

Allied fighters strafed the B-1? and set her ablaze, but Luft-

waffe personnel had long since stripped all the salvageable

equipment from the hulk.

Book Design by Robert Biondi.

Copyright © 1995 by Marion H. Havelaar.

Library of Congress Catalog Number: 95-67618.

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or used in any forms or by

any means - graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or information

storage and retrieval systems - without written permission from the copyright holder.

Printed in the United States of America.

ISBN: 0-88740-810-9

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