Arthur Robert Scroggins
MilitaryThey are wearing the RAF uniforms given to them after ditching their aircraft ("Superstitious Aloysius" 42-6098) the previous day off Bawdsey.
Peter V. Milward Crew - 335th Sqn
BACK ROW: Peter V. Milward (pilot), Frank P.Miles (waist gunner), Charles R. McComber (ball turret gunner) William L. Weeks (waist gunner), William J. Milton (navigator)
FRONT ROW: Richard L. Spears (top turret/engineer), Arthur R Scroggins (bombardier), Eddie S. Winstead (radio operator), Joseph L.Kolarik (tail gunner) Arthur Farris (co-pilot).
NARA Ref 342-FH-3A09158-C59231AC.
Source of information was from son Richard Milward
Flew 53 missions. Shot down twice. First time 04 Jan 44 ditched in North Sea after bombing Kiel, plane was Superstitous Aloysius, RTD was picked up by British Destroyer HMS Verdun. 2nd time 17 Oct 44 crash landed behind U. S. lines in Belgium after bombing Cologne, with shrapnel wounds in legs pulled out by U. S. Infantryand returned to England for specialized treatment. Also flew an experimental mission where they put a Bombsight in the nose of a droop snoot P-38J with Col Hub Zemke. They bombed an airfield in France but upon returning the plane had no brakes and we skidded forever. This effort was then dropped as not too practical
Purple Heart, Bronze Star, DFC, Air Medal
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 56th Fighter Group Headquarters (479th Fighter Group) Headquarters (56th Fighter Group)
- Service Numbers: O-022353
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot / Commander
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Darlin' Dolly
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 803rd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Superstitious Al-o-ysius
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Nicknames: Fubar
- Unit: Base Air Depot 3 55th Fighter Group 56th Fighter Group 338th Fighter Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Enlisted |
Montgomery, AL, USA | 15 March 1942 | |
Other Shot down |
North Sea | 4 January 1944 | ditched in North Sea after bombing Kiel in B-17 'Superstitous Aloysius', picked up by British Destroyer HMS Verdun. RTD. |
Other Shot down |
Belgium | 17 October 1944 | Crash landed behind US lines in Belgium after bombing Cologne, with shrapnel wounds in legs pulled out by US Infantry and returned to England for specialized treatment. RTD. |
Tallassee, Alabama | |||
Other Droop Snoot |
France | Flew experimental mission where they put a Bombsight in the nose of a droop snoot P-38J with Col Hub Zemke. Bombed an airfield in France but upon returning the A/C brakes failed and both crew were lucky to survive the landing. | |
Born |
Alabama, USA |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Shand Scroggins, grandson