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Lawrence Kaplan

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  • Robert G. Boudon Crew 95th BG - 334th BS This crew completed a 30 mission tour Standing Left to Right: Lawrence Kaplan (WG), Weldon T. Martz (FE), R. M. Haupt (RO), Floyd M. Hammond (BTG), Athol A. Strickland (TG), Kneeling Left to Right: Robert G. Boudon (P), John W. Dugan (B), Edward J. Felski (CP) Haupt appears to have not flown any missions with this crew. He was replaced by Keith J. Hausman Dugan is listed as John W. Dugan on the 95th BG website Kaplan is listed as Lawrence Kaplan on the 95th BG website Hammond is listed as Floyd M. Hammond on the 95th BG website Martz is listed as Weldon T. Martz on the 95th BG website Strickland is listed as Athol A. Strickland on the 95th BG website

    Robert G. Boudon Crew 95th BG - 334th BS This crew completed a 30 mission tour Standing Left to Right: Lawrence Kaplan (WG), Weldon T. Martz (FE), R. M. Haupt (RO), Floyd M. Hammond (BTG), Athol A. Strickland (TG), Kneeling Left to Right: Robert G. Boudon (P), John W. Dugan (B), Edward J. Felski (CP) Haupt appears to have not flown any missions with this crew. He was replaced by Keith J. Hausman Dugan is listed as John W. Dugan on the 95th BG website Kaplan is listed as Lawrence Kaplan on the 95th BG website Hammond is listed as Floyd M. Hammond on the 95th BG website Martz is listed as Weldon T. Martz on the 95th BG website Strickland is listed as Athol A. Strickland on the 95th BG website

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Service

People

Units served with

  • 95th Bomb Group

    95th Bomb Group

    Group
    The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...

  • 334th Bomb Squadron

    334th Bomb Squadron

    Squadron

Aircraft

  • 42-102447 'El's Belles'

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 4/3/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Dow Fd 4/4/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-A] Horham 6/4/44; with L.J. Price, force landed 4/8/44 sal; with M.S. Roy force landed Framlingham AFB 25/12/44; with H. Rivet force landed France 20/2/45; with J.E....

  • 42-102951

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/44; Kearney 6/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-Q] Horham 30/5/44; with A.E. McCulley 25/8/44 wia-b Lt Bill Kehoe, Waist gunner: Larry Roberts; with W.C. Bramlett force landed RAF Woodbridge 25/12/44; with R.W....

  • 42-37879 'Wrinkled Belly Baby'

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Denver 29/9/43; Gr Island 22/10/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [BG-U] Horham 11/11/43; with W.P. Kelley force landed Attlebridge afb, Suffolk, 11/12/43; two days later the u/c would not extend and force landed at Honington AFB with H. M. Powers, Co...

  • 42-97215

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 8/2/44; Kearney 24/2/44; Presque Is 12/3/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [BG-J] Horham 12/3/44; on practice mission 20/11/44 with Stew Reed, Co-pilot: Harold Rensch, Navigator: Tony Marnik, Radio Operator: Bill Raab, Flight engineer/top...

  • 43-38255 'Poof Proof'

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 13/7/44; Hunter 22/7/44; Dow Fd 4/8/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-A] Horham 5/8/44; 334BS [BG-C]; with R.G. Boudon force landed Framlingham afb 18/10/44; caught fire en route Hamm 28/10/44 with G.L. Braund; ret safely, 9RTD Missing Air...

Missions

  • 466

    11 July 1944
    More than 1000 planes bombed Munich. Flak cut our control cables to elevators and rudder. Flew back by wing trim tabs. Shippy spliced cables before landing. Nine hour ride. Flak hit Sgt Rollinger's oxygen mask and injured his nose and eyes.

  • 8th Air Force 482

    19 July 1944
    Schweinfurt, Germany ball bearing plant was the target. Hit by flak and fell behind formation at 8:45 am above Aachen, Germany and crashed at Haren, Belgium at 10:06 am in the air district.

  • 484

    20 July 1944
    A rough one. Bombed an oil refinery near Leipzeig. Flak put several holes in the plane; ine in number 3 gas tank. Came back on 3 engines.

  • 510

    2 August 1944

  • 514

    4 August 1944

  • 524

    6 August 1944

  • 530

    8 August 1944

  • 545

    12 August 1944

  • 8th Air Force 554

    15 August 1944
    Airfields in NW Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium are the primary targets for this mission. 8th Air Force despatches a total of 932 aircraft. The raid is coordinated with 1,000 Royal Air Force (RAF) heavy bombers and Mosquitos attacking 9 airfields...

  • 8th Air Force 556

    16 August 1944
    Aircraft factories and oil refineries are the primary targets for this mission. A total of 1090 heavy bombers are despatched. See Mission Details for particulars. ...

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Associated Place

  • Horham

    Military site : airfield
    Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....

Events

Event Location Date
Born New York, NY 1919
Lived in Bronx, NY 1942
Enlisted New York, NY 10 November 1942
Nationality
American
Nickname
Not yet known
Service numbers
32624262
Highest rank
Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade)
Role/job
Waist Gunner
Awards
Not yet known

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
17 August 2020 03:04:40 466thHistorian Changes to middlename, firstname, service number, highest rank, events, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources

http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=3124305
https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/person/3430
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:03:05 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php

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