Last Update: The last update of the data below was March 28, 2005. Input Requested: Please send any additional information or corrections for this list to the 398th Group Historian. If you are unsure about the spelling, use the first few letters. These men were transported by troop ship in order for key HQ and ground personnel to be immediately flown over to populate Station 131, Nuthampstead.įind Command: Use your web browser's Find Command to search for a particular individual. Note: '****' in the CREW MBR column denotes regular crew member not listed on official loading list. In some cases, other ranks and positions may have been attained through subsequent duties in the Armed Forces. Terms: The term in the charts below "ORG" is an abbreviation for "Original." The "Final Rank" and "Final Position" are those ranks and positions attained at the completion of 398th duty. Not many of the "we were the first" crew member names are familiar at our annual reunions, but when you encounter one, he'll be happy to tell you the story. It was only a few weeks after that before replacement crews were needed and began to arrive. The 398th crews performed well after what was reported to be a somewhat shaky first mission. Colonel Hunter took thirty-six of his crews on the 398th's first combat mission on May 6, 1944. Note: in the CREW MBR column denotes regular crew member not listed on official loading list. Photo 4: The B-24 Hot Stuff flew her 25th mission on 7 February, 1943, three-and-a-half months before Memphis Belle. Photo 3: The World War II crew of the B-24 Bomber Hot Stuff. They well understood that many other 8th Air Force Bomb Groups were already "in business" flying combat missions, and they were to be the first for the 398th. Photo 2: The B-24 named Hot Stuff that actually was the first bomber in World War II to complete 25 missions. They arrived crew by crew at Station 131, Nuthampstead, England in late April and were soon put to work. They left their training site in Rapid City, SD in early April 1944 bound for the European Theater of Operations. Listed below are the names of the seventy two original B-17 crew members that were to first serve the 398th in combat. Photograph: De Wesselow Crew: (L to R): Gordon Cooper DFC & Bar (B/A), John Saynor DFC (R/G), Stan Carlyle DFM (Nav), Peter de Wesselow DSO DFC & Bar (Pilot), Fred White DFC (W/op), Bill Bamlett DFC DFM (F/E), Grant Muckhart DFC (M/U G). Surely those crews assigned to man the 398th Bomb Group (H) for combat must have felt real special to be first. The bow of the plane with its wings was turned upside down and the part of the crew. It's the American way to want to be number one. On December 17, 1944, a bomber B-24 Liberator and others set off from base. The First Combat Crews Assigned to the 398th Archaeologists and American Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency staff work to recover the remains of an American bomber crew, whose aircraft crashed at a site in Arundel in 1944.
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