https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/10/229/Dibble_Text0170.pdf 25baae13d5bae29779f18b44d9168c93 PDF Text Text 94TH FIGHTER SQUAD^H 1ST FIGHTER GRO’.T A.P.O. J20 July IS, 1943. SL.T.CH MISSION - 8 P~38s, Lts. Stephan, Allan, Whalen, Jackson, Brown, Phillips, Brophy and Newsome, together with a formation from the 2?tn Fighter Squadron, took off at' 0735 hours to escort 1 Sunderland on an Air-Sea Rescue mission. About 50 cr 60 miles off the southwest coast of Naples, Italy, at about 500 feet. The formation rendezvoued with the Sunderland over SIDI AHMED, TUNISIA at 0750 hours. The formation did not see ary wreckage, but sighted 2 dinghies about a quarter of a mile apart, one empty, and the other containing 6 men, at 1000 hours. The Sunderland landed and picked up these 6 men. Route: direct. Weather: hazy all the way. No eneny shipping or aircraft seen. The formation landed.at 1323 hours. te < July 19, 1943. LG2BER ESCORT MIS ION - 22 P-38s, Lts. Hagenback, Parlett, Dibble, Grieshaber, Brophy, Lee, Bov.er,' Hanton, Fell, Teryy, Opdahl, Jacobsen, Brown, Newscme, Whalen, Pace, Anderson, Niles, Cogswell, Sokol, Kipper, and Sager, took off at at 1235 hours, the P-38s at 11,000 feet and the B-26s at 10,000 feet. L< . . 4 Nvmeroup tensity and inaccurate; fran ROME out to coast, scattered heavy tracking, . £?EE£?minto the TYRRHENIAN SEA at about 1405 hours, 5 crewmen were seen to bail out. i SsssaSSi I. i timated them to be 230 degrees and 70 miles from ROME. 5 other P~38s and 3 ■ • B-26s circled and the B-26s dropped dinghies. Lt. Niles had both belly tmJr: : so he' told th© other P-38s to return to the mainland and report to the Air-sea 1 Rescue... Lt. Niles tried to reach Air-sea Rescue on °D" channel but he was too far out. The P-38s and the B-26s left and Lt. Niles continued to circle the 2 4 men ^tho managed to get in the dinghy. The other members of the crew apparently 4 drowned. Lt. Nil>s heard Lt. Brown call "MAURICE0 andgive position. Lt Nil th continued to ci’-le for 2i hours and then threw his canteen to the men in t. _______________ dinghy. He fir close enough to the mainland to communicate with Air-sea Rescue ? and was told to land for ten rescue planes were on their way; to the men in the y*> dinghy. Lt. ?’<" is landed at 1735 hours. Route: the form**:ion flew di—t to -.argot and ret;. .ie&, ;.eoxler: to target, v has - tit:, v„: RANDOLPH A. -3F.G.:'., Captain, Air . ,. Intelligence Oil ice. . �94TH FIGHTER SQUADRON 1ST FIGHTER GROUP A.P.O. 520 July 19, 1943 (Coat'd) 1/10. BOMBER ESCORT MISSION (Continued) - Over target, high scattered clouds, ------- is, x/J-u* " Sokol - • - •had• Lt. Anderson's left engine cut out and he landed at 1200 hours. Lt. jht engine and he was unable to find a 1st® take-off because of trouble with rigl the formation and he landed at 1330 hours. The rest of the formation landed at 1545 hours. SEARCH MISSION - 1 P-38, Lt. Sokol, took off hours on a search mission with 7 other P-38s Squadrons. They searched the TYRRHENIAN SEA of i-.i. They -sighted a small coastal steamer CAVU but hazy. v j at 1545 hours and landed ,<at 2055 from the 27thand 71st Fighter for a B-26 crew but sev nottrace near the Italian coast. Weather: July 20, 1943. ANTI AIR TRANSPORT MISSION - 19 P-38s, Colonel Garman, Captain Stover, Captain | • ' ’ formation sighted 1 Sn. 82 10 miles North of £37177. ISL-JT) at 50 feet over the water.. The lead flight made, a $80 degree turn ana attactoea from rignt rear. Xne ■■ehejsy aircraft took evasive action and after the second pass began trailing gas and oil apd went into the water. The crew were seen in dinghies. A email vessel Boat vas sighted northeast of UST®A ISLAND heading toward. Italy-/ . So Other anW shipping qr; aircraft were seen., Weather: hazy to ^nd. W .area < 7 L. ‘ ; frail 6,000 feet todeck. Its* Schulze, Hagenback, Allan, Opdahl/Newsosje, ' Jaccbben, and Captain Stover returned and landed at 0950 hours. Lt. Sias re- '' $ turned and landed at 0705 hours bepause his left Belly Tank fell off. and his . right .engine was cutting out. ' The remainder cf the foraation returned and land^dl [ RANDOLPH Ai Captain, Ai Intelligence � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James P. Dibble: Mission Reports Description An account of the resource A collection of Mission reports from James' combat flights.<br /><br />Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. 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