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344th Bomb Group & Milk Run On-line

This website by Carl Carrozza provides information for those interested in the history of our WWII flying men and the B-26 Marauder. This site is the official website of the 344th Bomb Group.

If you or a relative or friend was a member of the 344th Bomb Group (which includes the 494th, 495th, 496th, and 497th Bomb Squadrons) and you need information, or if you have information, photos, diary, letters, mission log of a 344th veteran and would like it published here please contact me at damonbok@hotmail.com

If you would like to contribute to the 344th BG (Suggested $10 annual membership) please send a check to;

Mr. Chris Horn –
344th Bomb Group
1469 SW Dyer Point Rd, Palm City, FL 34990

Also visit our Facebook Page!

Data Archives

• MACRs 344th BG (Missing Air Craft Report)

• Milk Run Newsletter Archive  (344th BG newsletter)

• Accident Reports on Loss of Planes and Personnel

• 344th Mission List and Interactive Map

• MACRs Missing Air Crew Reports and Summarys

• List of 344th BG Aircraft with Links to Images  update (2/18/15)

• Accident Reports on Loss of Planes and Personnel

• 495th Roster During Frank Carrozza’s Tour (beginning 6/44)

• 344th Archive Reels

Headlines

• Gay or Macabre (How 344th Marauders Were Named

• Frank Carrozza’s War Stories

• B-26 in a Hollywood Movie!

• Lt. General Emmanuel Schifani

• Clay-Andeson 344th First Kill of ME 109 Fighter

• Final Flight: Lt. Don (Corky) Korkowski 344th BG 494th BS

• Final Flight: Lt. Ed Horn 344th BG 497th BS

• The Latest Milk Run Newsletter: June 2019!

• Friends Journal Spring 2018 Includes Article About Ed Horn

• 2017 Reunion Dayton, OH – pictures and article

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See below for profiles of individual airmen.

Jack Havener’s book was published with the hard work of 344th BG President, Chris Horn. It is offered by Amazon.

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NEW-Recently Added Information and Links

• Lt. Joseph W. Esworthy

• Col. Cletus Wray

• Sgt. Wendell Mark Cave

• 1st Lt. Thomas J. Lewnes

• Flight Officer Robert Leroy Stoick

• Sgt. Glenn Leroy Tawney

• Final Flight George Eldridge

• 2nd Lt. Thomas L. Landor

• The L-4 Grasshopper

• Final Flight: Lt. Ed Horn 344th BG 497th BS

• Final Flight: Sgt. Joe Crossan,

• Milk Run August 2019

• Lt. Casey Hasey’s First Bomb Mission

• Lt. Casey Hasey Remembers D-Day

• S/Sgt. Charles Franklin Brooker

• Letter From Don Korkoski

• Lt. Joseph W. Scott, Pilot 497th BS Let-Hal Lady (updated 11/25/19)

• Korkowski’s Controversial Picture

• 497 BS Bomber Jacket

• Final Flight: Otto “Kirk” Kirkpatrick

• The Wall of the Missing: 344th BG

• “Hidden Warbirds” Million Dollar Valley Marauders

• Ed Horn has been honored by the Friends Journal

• Accident Reports on Loss of Planes and Personnel

• 2017 Reunion Dayton, OH – pictures and article

• The Latest Milkrun Newsletter: June 2017 Reunion Info!

• Account of Crash of Coral Princess by Bomb/Nav Joseph R. Chiozza:

• Medals and Awards

• March 28, 1945 Collision Over A-59

• The Latest Milkrun Newsletter: June 2017 Reunion Info!

• Milk Run Archive 1988-present

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News and Information

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• 497 BS Bomber Jacket

• Korkowski’s Controversial Picture

• Milk Run: Official Newsletter 344th Bomb Group ( more issues to be added)

• Friends Journal Spring 2018 Includes Article About Ed Horn

• 344th Reunion-2013/(new 10/10/13)

• 2014 New Orleans Reunion 344th BG 495th BS

• Thank You to 344th BG Reunion Attendees (10/7/15)

• 2016 344th Bomb Group Reunion (9/22/16)

• 344th Bomb Group Missions on an interactive map (11/24/15)

• Shopworn Angel and Other B-26 Paper Models You Can Make (8/28/16)

• Shopworn Angel Artwork: Support Honor Flights  (4/9/16)

• “Gunnery Sense”  Training Publication (4/20/15)

• 1st Pathfinder Squadron (1/1/16)

• Battle For Arnhem Bridge Oct 7, 1944 (12/21/15)

• WWII Leather Squadron/Group Patches (8/23/15)

• 344th BG KIA MIA (Courtesy of Milk Run 344th BG) (8/15/15)

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Profiles of the Marauder Men

• The Wall of the Missing: 344th BG

• Original Occupants of Hut #10 Stansted (1/19/17)

• Major John H. Adams 496th BS

• Lt. Harold V. Aiken (Carrozza’s 1st Co-Pilot) Memoirs/Missions & More 495th BS (3/1/13)

• Final Flight: Lt. Harold V. Aiken

• Lt. William S. Andrews 495th & 494th

• J.R. Ashberry, Pilot 344th BG 494th BS (12/27/15)

• My Life in the service: John J Beddingfield Jr. Engineer/Gunner 496th BS(5/30/14)

• Update John J. Beddingfield (links and after war info)

• 2nd Lt. Edward Borresen

• 2nd Lt. Mark Pritchard Bratton

• 1st Lt. Whitey Bressler a Biography

• Roland ‘Whitey” Bressler – Final Flight 8/12/ 2018

• S/Sgt. William H. Brockdorf, Sr.

• S/Sgt. Charles Franklin Brooker

• 1st Lt. Rodney T. Brubaker

• Captain Keith Caldwell

• Frank Carrozza’s War Stories

• Update on Carrozza crewmate Lt. Carlson, Bomb/Nav  495th BS(1/15/14)

• Pictures and Documents on crewmate Lt. Carlson (1/28/14)

• Sgt. Wendell Mark Cave

• Lt. Clyde Donald Chaney

• Account of Crash of Coral Princess by Radio/Gunner Joseph R. Chiozza:

• T/Sgt. Michael Christopher Radio/Gun 344th BG 496th BS

• S/Sgt. Vincent Cirincione

• Captain Lucius D. Clay, Jr., Pilot Group Commander (3/27/15)

• Clay-Andeson 344th First Kill of ME 109 Fighter

• 2nd Lt. Irwin Phillip Cohen

• 2nd Lt. Willie Cone, Bomb/Nav 494th BS

• 1st Lt. Robert D. Conrad, Pilot 344th BG 494th BS (11/3/15)

• S/Sgt. Evan B. Cook 494th BS

• Captain Gerald Corrigan

• 1st Lt. Milton A. Courtright 495th BS

• George W. Crittenden, Bombardier 495th (4/16/15)

• Read an exclusive first hand description of experimental night bombing missions from bombardier George Crittenden.

• Sgt. Joe Crossan, Eng/Gun 494th BS (6/18/16)

• 1st Lt. Joseph W. Curley

• William E. Davis, Eng/Gun 495th BS Pictures of  bomber jacket (6/23/14)

• S/Sgt Roger W. Danner 495th BS

• S/Sgt. Charles D’Atrio

• 2nd Lt. Fred Dees

• Sgt. Edward W. Dollahan, Engineer/Gunner 495th BS (4/4/16)

• James K. Dumas, Tail Gunner 495th (5/22/14)

• Sgt. Homer Dean Duncan

• Sgt. Frank M. Dymnicki (1/4/17)

• Corporal Donald Earlywine

• 1st Lt. George W. Eldridge, Bombardier 344th BG 494th BS (3/20/16)

• Final Flight George Eldridge

• War War II Memoirs of Santo Endrizzi (5/21/14)

•  Santo Endrizzi: An Old Friend Ground Crew 495th (new 4/28/13)

• Santo Endrizzi: Receives Legion of Honor Medal

• Lt. Joseph W. Esworthy

• Lt. Richard Farnsworth, Pilot 344th BG Silver Star Winner (8/6/15)

• Sgt. J.Q. Frierson, Crew Chief

• Major Neil Fitzgerald(10/11/17)

• 1st Lt. Robert S. FitzSimmonds, Pilot 495th (6/15/15)

• James Gatlin, Pilot 391th BG Shot Down on Same Mission as Shopworn Angel (4/29/15)

• S/Sgt Samuel M. Gold

• Captain John C. Graves 494th BS

• Carl E. Griffith, Bomb/Nav 495th BS 1st Crew of Shopworn Angel

• Susie Griffith Barbaer Locates Shopworn Angel Pictures!

• 2nd Lt. Robert L. Haag

• Lt. Casey Hasey’s First Bomb Mission

• Lt. Casey Hasey: A letter home (updated 8/01/13)

• Lt. Casey Hasey, Bombardier 495th BS: Book and Interview (3/30/13)

• Hasey Casey’s Book on Amazon.com! (10/12)

• Casey Hasey – Final Flight August 21, 2018

• Lt. Casey Hasey Remembers D-Day 4/22/20

• S/Sgt. Clayton F. Haskell

• Info: Edwin L. Hickey, Tailgunner 495th from Shopworn Angel first crew (new 9/24/13)

• Cpl. George C. Hoagland

• Lt. Edward Horn, Co-Pilot 344th BG 497th BS (1/27/16)

• Ed Horn has been honored by the Friends Journal

• Stansted Airport Celebrates 7oth anniversary with Ed Horn and 344th (new 11/10/13)

• Final Flight: Lt. Ed Horn 344th BG 497th BS

• Cpl. Julian (Jay) Hotard 497th BS

• 2nd Lt. Raymond J. Jewett 496th BS

• Captain Tom Johnson, Pilot 344th BG 494th BS (updated 3/21/21)

• In Memory: Alf Egil Johanneson

• 2nd Lt. Wilmouth Keller

• Lt. Wilmoth (Bill) Keller 496th BS

• 2nd Lt. Otto Kirkpatrick, Nav. 344th BG 494th BS and 11 Pathfinder Squadron(1/1/16)

• Final Flight: Otto “Kirk” Kirkpatrick

• Sargeant John Kolthoff Bombardier 495th BS (12/31/14)

• Mission Log Summary: Sargeant John Kolthoff Bombardier (12/31/14)

• Mission Log: Sargeant John Kolthoff Bombardier (12/31/14)

• Lt. Don (Corky) Korkowski, Pilot 344th BG 494th BS (3/22/16)

• Letter From Don Korkoski

• Final Flight: Lt. Don (Corky) Korkowski 344th BG 494th BS

• 2nd Lt. Thomas L. Landor

• 1st Lt. Lewis Ezell Lanford

• 1st Lt. Ralph N. Leone(1/14/17)

• 1st Lt. Thomas J. Lewnes

• 2nd Lt. George Lyons 494th BS

• S/Sgt. Ernest Mandeville

• T/Sgt. August B. Marineeli, Radio/Gunner 495th BS

• S/Sgt Wayne L. Martin 494th BS

• 1st Lt. Silas Carl May 496th BS

• S/Sgt. Cleveland Mayfield 495th BS

• Edward C McCarter, Tailgunner/Armor 495th BS remembered by Dutch (Sexy Sal II) (5/3/15)

• T/Sgt. Ed A. McGarrahan

• Lt. Bennie D. McSwain

• 2nd Lt. Charles Middleton

• A Visit To Dachau by Bob Monson 494th BS

• Lt. Donald Moomaw, Pilot 495th BS (6/12/16)

• New Photo of Shopworn Angel from Donald Moomaw

• Don Moomaw locates a picture of a Shopworn Angel crewman.

• New Pictures Don Moomaw

• Final Flight: The Passing of Don Moomaw (10/7/15)

• 1st Lt. Moore, Pilot of Nick’s Chick 495th BS (new 9/19/13)

• Updates and Additions Lt. Moore and Nick’s Chick (new 9/19/13)

• Lt. Fritz Morrison 344th BG 497th BS(12/22/16)

• Einar Nielsen, Radio/Gunner 495th BS (3/19/15)

• Jens A. Norgaard, Pilot 495th BS (1/18/15)

• Col. Jens A. Norgaard (8/1/19)

• T/Sgt. James G. Ovens

• Sgt. Roy Fred Pace

• Cpl. Leonard Norris Pew (10/1/17)

• Final Flight: Sgt. William A. Poche radio/gun 494th (3/27/18)

• Experiences of Norman D. Polk (1/18/15)

• Sergeant Norman D. Polk, Radio/Gun (1/18/15)

• Captain William Reitz (7/18/19)

• 2nd Lt. Austin Roberts

• Sgt. Jesse McIntosh Scott

• Lt. Joseph W. Scott, Pilot 497th BS Let-Hal Lady (updated 11/25/19)

• POWs Scott, Tharp, Leone, Murphy, Williams (1/19/17)

• Lt. General Emmanuel Schifani

• 1st Lt. Martin (Marty) Sidener

• 1st Lt. Leigh Slates, Pilot Transferred 497th BS Plane and the Me262 (4/7/16)

• Sgt. Henry Clayton Smith 494th BS

• Co-Pilot Woody Smith 496th Timeline

• 1st Lt. Michael Sopronyi, Navigator 494th BS (7/2/16)

• Flight Officer Robert Leroy Stoick

• 1st Lt. Frederick D. Storey

• S/Sgt Irving Sugarman, Radio/Gunner 494th BS Memorabilia (6/24/15)

• Sgt. Glenn Leroy Tawney

• S/Sgt. Carl J. Teahan

• S/Sgt. Cornelius Vander Lugt: Shopworn Angel Tailgunner 495th BS  (4/15/14)

• Marcel van der Lugt Makes Shopworn Angel Jacket (6/8/15)

•  Lt. Harold A. Walton, Co-Pilot 344th BG 497 BS (11/24/15)

• 1st Lt. Robert Warda

•  2nd Lt. Charles Henry Ware Jr.

• 2nd Lt. Robert L. Westholm, Bombardier/Nav 344th BG 494th BS (3/21/16)

• 2nd Lt. Buck Wilson Co-Pilot and Y5-H 495th BS(8/24/15)

• Lt. Col. Robert Witty with Major Jewell C. Maxwell (1/19/17)

• Lt. Col. Robert Witty (1/19/17)

• Captain Woodrum, Pilot 495th: Newly added pictures (updated 8/29/13)

• Captain Woodrum, MACR of Crash of Y5-T, 42-107608

• Read an Excerpt of “Walkout” a book by Hank Woodrum, first pilot of the Shopworn Angel

• “Walkout” Woodrum’s book is now available!

• Hank Woodrum Jr and family reunite with father’s rescuers

• Col. Cletus Wray

• 1st Lt. Glenn R. Young

• Captain William Nelson Young M.D.

• S/Sgt. John W. Zaucha

• 2nd Lt. Harry Zeust, Bomb. 495th A Bittersweet Valentines Story

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About the Planes

• Gay or Macabre (How 344th Marauders Were Named

• “Hidden Warbirds” Million Dollar Valley Marauders

• IWM Photo Archive 344th

• The L-4 Grasshopper

• Crash of the Valkyrie

• B-26 Marauder Interior Pictures (7/26/14)

• 344th MACR/Fatalities/Accidents Summary Spread Sheet

• History of the Shopworn Angel, Y5-J, 42-95917

• What Happened to the Planes of the 344th BG? (12/27/14)

• Silver Streaks Nose Art

• German Crash Report of the Shopworn Angel translated (8/12/14)

• The Wizard of Koz (12/20/15)

• Margatan Cemetary/Memorial, Netherlands: Fields of Honor Database (4/29/14)

• List of 344th BG Aircraft with Links to Images  (3/26/14)

• The Silver Streaks Compiled Information

• Jimmy Doolittle Saves the B-26 (10/08/16)

• Airplane Spotter & Icelandic Playing Cards  (3/22/14)

• Complete Story of the Bombing Mission to the Engers RR Bridge (3/10/14)

• What if I’m Captured (Frank’s survival items) (2/3/14)

• Summary: third and Final Crew of the Shopworn Angel (1/16/14)

• B-26 Christmas (12/25/13)

• Final Flights of the 344th (11/30/13)

• 344th Bomb Group 495th Bomb Squadron Summary (11/30/13)

• Norden Bombsite: Dropping Bombs in a Barrel.

• A Book Based on 344th Bomb Squadron and John Myers (new 10/3/13)

• “Time Over Targets” Bkt Given to Frank Carrozza 

• “Gunnery Sense” Bkt Given to Frank Carrozza 

• History Channel B-26 Documentary

• Build A B-26 from paper!

• Honor Flight Video

• “A Higher Call” A Book I Highly Recommend

• A Visit to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum (new 10/12)

• Memorial Day Notes

• The Crash of the Shopworn Angel

• (1/12 ) Link to a German Data Base with Shopworn Angel Info

• Some newly scanned photos of Frank Carrozza

• On his 89th birthday a video of fortresses and Glen Miller

• • Long lost video of B-29 rescue found (thanks to Alf Johannessen of the link)

T/Sgt. Frank P. Carrozza (webmaster’s father).

• • • Medals and Awards

    • Frank Carrozza’s Dog Tags: What Information Do They Include?

    • Letters to Frank Carrozza From His Father (new 9/2/13)

    • Dad’s Wartime Prayer Book (4/2/15)

    • Frank and Lucy Answer Student Questions About the War (4/2/15)

    • Frank Carrozza Awarded the Jubilee of Liberty Medal

    • Video of the Jubilee of Liberty Award Ceremony

    • 66th Anniversary of D-Day. Frank Carrozza remembers.

    • 67th Anniversary of D-Day. Frank Carrozza remembers.

    • Frank Carrozza 70th Anniversary of D-Day Participation (5/6/14)

    • Memorabilia and Awards Frank P. Carrozza (2/2/14)

    • Frank Carrozza’s Honor Flight

    • Final Flight: Frank P. Carrozza

• • • Geocities Archive

    • Outline and overview.

    • 2016 Reunion Outline and Overview.

Webmaster Carl Carrozza. damonbok@hotmail.comI dedicate this page to my father, Frank P. Carrozza: 344th Bomb Group 495 Bomb Squadron . Click here for a biographic sketch .