2 20 179 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/12/312/Dibble_Text0227.pdf 51c06663af3ca62c8b8420131a5a9c49 PDF Text Text ♦..pJT ♦ ... >; . •.•.•*•• .• ★ ••: ★RTL- • ° |C - „| I 1 ’ "> Lw1 c^ ' r i'-l^^ I '★ o; IltO (.u-eAj^ cv~t6i^ cA/ '^',■'-1(5'^ fi-/a- ^-~CL<c.cA-&/CC<l> vL ?^^-LiC^tCLSAJL. .■£&&j2*tA^-c*£L '^I^L-t^J1, 7^ L^ ^>ncx- \ 'ZT~CW dS^y tu^^ux. d LA'^isv^ l ;K I Y I *•; I★ - p- ^ciL^ c^n^- J>--1^U •' I^C-^tJZji- &T< ★ ./[_ �7 • (anno anu nuuij / L’J (data and hour) 17QQ hrs 30/8/43 Serial No Timo Dated PLAGE; Llateur, I,7. Africa Incidents, Kiessages, Orders, etc. (day and |Disposidate) ■ tion irently the signal 29/8/43 Cont'd. A ; green flare was appai for attack, as no> passes were made until a green flare minutes after target time. bursts 5 minul -IiaZfC LOSSES: Two (2) lie 109's damaged. RAIIAI. OUR LOSSES: 1One (1) Lt. IIILLURD II. GRAHAL SORTIES: 40 ■LEATHER: 7/10ths cumulus overcast at. 8,000 ft.., CAW above. ’ Target area was covered with scattered <cumulus !clouds from 7,000 to 11,000 ft. but otherwise CAVU. and 1 Scattered showers were encountered between Italy --!Sicily on return. NOTE: Lt. IHTTJ.TI’S reported missing on mission Mo. ’809, 28 august, 1943, has returned to base. He: landed at Termini, Sicily with a blown out engine. Ilie returned to base in another P-38. i 30/8/43 48 P-38's from the 27th, 71st and 94th Squadrons up base at 0950 hrs. to escort B-26's of 349th Bomb Gp. to Aversa l.i/l, Italy. 4 P-38's returned e;.rly "ly, 2 due to r radio trouble and 2 due to engine trouble. Gq. " leaders: L«s. HURST, VOLLEY and DIBBLE. Time over i arget area 1200 hrs. ^iltitude of fighters 11,500 ft.. and bombers 11,000 ft. 60 to 75 e/a (Lie 109's, 's, 7<l 1903 s, Lla 202*s, possibly a couple of enemy operated ;ed Spitfires Spit f12 and 1 enemy operated P-38 identified with black crosses on it) attack-. ed formations just as they the crossed the coait over Lago di Fatria at 11,5000ft. The The bombers continue! on to target while P-38's e/a. Results of bomb: .ng was not ob- . 3’s engaged en served. 12 made the first attack!out of the sun 12 Lie 109's I . . 7)^13 ,vas follow- ■ from above as F-38's crossed... the coast, F.I 1^0's and Lla ed by increasing numbers of Lie 109's, 109' 2's, 202' s, which forced the l’-38's -38r down to 6,0^)0 fjr. and in . a running dog fight over the Gulf of Gaetaj the battle was fought jht low over the water. The P-38 formation was good until ;il repeated attacks by superior numbers of enemy . fighters, a, which isolated a alflight at a time. Several. P-38's reported flying 300 mph. on the dec'/ and being 1091 s^carrying sfea: easily overtaken by Lie 109* belljr tanks.? The enemy attacks were highly coordinated, coord: one(group attack ing while another was The initial attack was is reforming. reformin'* made from a half circle formation 1500 ft.I above and be hind F-38's. }8's. Aerial dive bombing occurred; black flak l like bursts •sts were seen generally above 1-38's. Rocket I projectiles exploding in white bursts are Also believed Ito I to have been used. The engagement lasted from 1155 hrs. •1 until 1235 hhrs. and a second wave of Lie 109's carrying belly tanks pursued the formation 100 miles from Italy. Six (6) PP-38' —38's were observed to go into the sea. One collided with a F.7 F,7 190 head-on and exploded in air. Sev eral parachutes, both American and German, opened and dinghies were seen in the water. Eight-(8) c/a. were de stroyed, three (3) probably destroyed and five (5) damaged z <■ ' z z �1ST FIGHTER GROUP JOURNAL (date and hour) 1700 hrs 30/6/43 ’ ... :■ (data and hour) 1800 hrs 3/9/43 Serial i Time No iPated UNIT: 1st Fighter Group PLACE: Hateur. E. Africa Incidents, Messages, Orders, etc. (day and jDisposidate) ■ tion 30/8/43 Oont’d. Thirteen (13) P-38's are missing. jrved frc from the few bursts of light inaccurate flak was observed ;h of Lago di Patria. No >und, coastal area North I enemy grot naval or shipping m * ^‘ "ity observed. 28 E-j-38's dowr ------pping activity base3 by by 1713 1713 hrs. are down down in in S: Siiily.. One of 58's are hrs. 3 P-38's the three pilots landing in Sicily returned to 1base by a transport. sport. He suffered minor shrapnel wouhds in the ■ left shot shoulder. ! CHRONOLOGY; Time off 0950 hrs. Time over target 1200 i hrs. Time down 1713 hrs. ed Alm el I.Iekki, rendezvous3 point ROUTE: Base to C. Sidi Lago di Patria to Avzrsa, retuj return with B-26's thence to La_ ing via Sicily where several of our planes 'efueled, thence to base. ENEMY LOSSES: Size (6) lie 109's one (1) F< 190 and one (1) Ma 202 destroyed. Three (3) L'e 109's Probably destroyed. Three (3) lie 109's and two (2) M 1 202>s damaged. OUR LOSSES: Thirteen (13) P-38's are missing: 1st Lt. IRQ, 2nd Lt. CLIFFORD E. RANDOL, 2nd Lt. JEROME N. WEINBERG KARRY D. '.;AREKER, F/O DONALD B. DEISENIiOTH,-2r •2nd Lt.’WALTER G. MORRISON, 2nd Lt. CLARENCE E. SOUTHURD, _J, 2nd Lt. ' Lt. RALPH F. TURRSNTIKE, 1st Lt. JOHN S. WILLEY,, 2nd ' DAVID 0. PARLETT, 2nd Lt. HOHN T. CRAM, 2n{l ILt. RALPH IS. PECK, 2nd Lt. CHARLES A. WOODARD and 2nd Lt.. HAROLD D. RIGNEY. WEATHER: CAVU enroute and over target are 1, with cumulus clouds building up over Sicily at 9,000 ftr PRESS DATA: 1st Lt. FRANK J. JiC IliTOSH, 1|U5 Irving St., San Francisco, Calif., destroyed one (1) F7 190. 1st Lt. JOHN D. HURST, 921 B. East Garfield Ave., llendale, ” ’ ' "Calif, destroyed two(2) Me 109's. 2nd Lt. LARRY k. REYNOLDS, 322 '.7. Culver St., Phoenix, Arizona, destroy? eyed one (1) Me 109. 1st Lt. JOHN I. HUSBY. 712 alien o/e., |kv? Rapid City South Dakota, destroyed one (1) Me 109. f* 2pd Lt. STANLEY 2. STUBER, Monona, Iowa, destroyed two (2^ -) Me _109!s. 2nd Lt. ROBERT A. VRILAKAS, Proberta, Calif., destroyed u.., aesT one (1) Ma 202. F/C 5TU12CA.TD, probably destroyed sptroyed one (1) Me 109. 2nd Lt. BERRENS, probably destroyed Me royed one (1) ' 109. 1st Lt. OPMIL, pfiobably destroyed onb (1) IMe 109 and damaged one (1) Na 202. Lt. VRILAKAS damaged one (1) Na 202. Lt. SOKOL damaged one (1) Me 109. SCHAPER J.ii Lt. SC ____ damaged one (1) Le 109 and Lt. ANDERSON dz ‘ lalaaged one (1) Me 109. I 31/8/43 1/9/43 No missions this date. Ho missions this date. r �94TH fi-.ht.z: sjuadhok 1ST fI’.KT.r. GROUP APO 520 September 2, 1943. SUi-J-GT i : TO Combat Claims. Commanding Officer, 1st Fighter Groqj, APO 520.' 1. On Au-ust 30, 1943,1 took off with 16 other F-33e from the 94th Fi«htcr Squadron, together with formations from the 27th and 71st Filter Squadrons to escort 19 B~2bs over Averse H/f, Italy. Before reaching the target, our formation ms attacked by about 75 to 100 Me.109s, Fw«190s are: i‘.a.202s. Our flight turned to the left and 1 saw a Ma.202 attacking anoJ er flight. I closed to about 150 yards and gave liim along bui-st. This 2ia.2O2 started staokins;, burst into fLanes and crashed in tlio water. 2. As ws "hit the deck** I tried to rejoin ay formation and directly in front of me was a Ma.202. X gave him a medium bu’st from about 75 yards arid saw ny tracers enter his cockpit and along his gas tanks. This enemy air craft started smoking badly and siads a gentle turn to the left, indicating that the. pilot may hive been hit. AL this tine I was forced to turn away in order to get away from another Ma.202 which was on my tail. 3. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Historical account Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Smith Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca. 2003 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/10/209/Dibble_Text0151.pdf 2482ed25c87a06e51b7e3ebc69c6fdba PDF Text Text 94TJI FIGHTER SQUADRON 1ST F3DIIIER GROUP A. P.O, 520 June 5, 1943. (Con't) DIES LCLEING HISSIOL; - 5 P-38s, Its, -oose, Esser, Whalen, Anderson and Newsome, F bomb NdSEPI-iTO k/D near CAGLIARI, SARDINIA. The formation flew on the deck direct to the southeast tip of SARDINIA, thence north for 20 miles, and thence direct to target and southward back to base. Lt. Newsome the spare, returned and landed at 1610 hours. He shot dov.n a balloon, 6ar 8 feet in diameter, 100 feet off the water about 45 miles south of CAGLIARI. The formation climbed to about 5,0C ■ feet just before the bcmb run and dropped their bombs from 3,000 =t. Hits were scored on hangars on the north side of A/fc. Hits werefalso seen feel rev :h corner of k/D, Tine over target, 1510 hours. Flak over t irget: light in the i Liu.; insity, not accurate. About 5 minutes after dropping their 'ombs, It, Whalen turned back to help another P-38 which was being attacked by 2 Ke.109s. ' 6 other Me ,109s then attacked these 2 P-3Ss. Lt. h.u-Ler. probably des? oyed 1 l'.e.l09 which was confirmed as destroyed by a pilot of the 27th Fightev Sq. It. Whalen then rejoined formation. Weather: to and over target, CAVU. Formation i u MS.. Capt.Sto^, *. NX,^, QuW, )IVZ lolc-xRe, Telu, FrecIJin;, Opda’il, Tk-oiirck, Nv: .end, Stephan and Miles, took off at? 1310 hours, togeuner with a formation xrom the 71st F. Sq,, each carrying 1 x 1000 2b bomb (instantaneous x .025) to dive banb the l/G just ■ northeast of CAPOTERRO, SARDINIA (just west of CAGLIARI). The formation flew . • M -. ,.. . K . ? L. | %t s ms a&*es s \ .parw, rrturnod ana landed at,J$50 hear., the tomMlon dropped bank. Iron, -' . 3,000 feet on north side of field near operations buildings and scored hits ’on 2 buildings. - About 12 B/A were in this corher of the field. No eneiqy aircraft ? were encountered. Time over target'lg00 hours. Flak: light, medium intensity W and not accurate. Vfe.ather to target, CAVU; over target, scattered clouds at g 6,000 to 7.000 ^.^uon^d at hour.. . Uapt., Air Corps , Intelligence Officer 1; � 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. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed mission report 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 Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 6 and June 7, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource United States. Air Force. 12th Air Force. 94th Fighter Squadron. Description An account of the resource Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 6 and June 7, 1943. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Flight Mission report Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Randolph A. Brown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-06 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/11/141/Dibble_Text0062.pdf a19b9fd3eca533f92527e6cfc27f92f8 PDF Text Text �� 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: Letters Home Description An account of the resource Getting letters from home was always a highlight of the week for everyone overseas. They wrote home frequently as well as evidenced by the volume of James' letters. Here is a collection of letters and postcards he sent home to his wife Maxine, brother Bill and parents while serving in Africa and Italy. Be sure to look at the letter dated 1943-04-10. Notice how James indicated he censored his own letter and look at the special form he had to use to send it home. Notice on other letters where they are stamped whether they were censored or not. Like most others, James had to be careful not to divulge too much information about where he was. James was killed on September 9, 1943. Be sure to read his last letter home, sent the day before. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Hand-written letter 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 Letter from James in North Africa to his parents, 1943-03-23 Subject The topic of the resource James Dibble. Correspondence. Description An account of the resource Letter from James in North Africa to his parents. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Personal correspondence Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Dibble Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-03-23 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 2022-01-18 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/9/376/Dibble_Text0191.pdf b99c2f18b7b1ee65c535176ec5fb96ca PDF Text Text ’ LTInL 1/ it t;'• (A* H34D\UaR3SS 42KD "«Ik‘J (US) APO 520 U S ARM' Z j . ' / C-12 2yS£B GENERAL ORDERS ) NUi.BER ^ssiheo ~ oc3 c'.a 1J November 1943 2 ) Section Award of Air ifedal . Award of Oak Leaf Cluster for the Air iledal. H- SECTION I — AWARD OF AIR icEDAL 1. Under the provisions of AR 600-45. as amended, and pursuant to authority contained in Circular No. 12o, Headquarters NATOUSA, 2 July 1943, letter, Head quarters NAAF, file 210.5, 30 May 1943 snd letter, Headquarters Fifteenth Air Force, file 210.5, 3 November 1943, *he 'Air L'edal is awarded the following named personnel, Air Corps, Army of the United States, residence as indicated, for meritorious achievement while participating in five (5) sorties against the enemy: ROBERT B. RICHARD, 0-236977. Lieutenant Colonel, Headquarters, First Fighter Group, Visalia, Calif. HORACE A. HANES. 0-23430, Kaior, Headquarters, First Fighter Group, Armington, Ill. ’SALTER 0. RONEY, 0-233416, iiSjor, Headquarters, First Fighter Group, 720 W. North ^Street, Carlisle, Pa. JAIES S. AIF0RD, 0-3'34873, First Lieutenant, 27th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 2120 P. Street, NS, Washington, D. 0. t 4 . !1 x-- &AR0LD A. HERR, 0-728659, First Lieutenant, 94th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter \ Group, Velva, N. Dak. V.TT.T.TA,! M. BECHTOLD, 0-737711, Second Lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 233& Kenilworth Avenue, Norwood, Ohio. 1<J'XJrffiRIE B. 27 th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter 3. BROWN, ntkMN, 0-680845, J-OOUO4P, Second i^conn Lieutenant, iu.eui.enan 'c' Group, J005 Dale Street, San Diego, Calif. DANIEL DARNELL, JR., 0-666386, Second Lieutenant, 94th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 4207 Brian Avenue, Dallas, Texas. L) ^3 FRED M. DEVENNEY. JR., 0-742977. Second Lieutenant, 94th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 518 S. 41®* Street, Omaha, Nebr. '"-OJOHN T. EASTMAN, O-8O3359, Second Lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 1146 Cheyenne, Tulsa, Oklahoma. ■" / . ;; /a,. - r - r^iwmnimra^ 1 y.k-,....... -1. , , Beca®9*/, ; ' I .... ... . .... . ■ 3 ; ..... �(GO #2, Headquarters 42nd Wing (US), dated 15 November 1943, contd.) X. JOHN D. PACE, 0-729050, First Lieutenant, 94th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Route #1, Burley, Idaho. YffOHN L. RUSSEIL, C0-733993, ~ First lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter V Group, 200 S. Fairmor irmont, Pittsburgh, Penna. ) NICHOLAS £SOKOL, 0-734017, First lieutenant, 94th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 2507 507 35th 351 Avenue, Astoria, long Island, N. Y. 'LESLIE L. BERENS, JR., 0-730344, Second lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 1435 Wainwright Avenue, San Leandro, Calif. 'HOBART S. VINCENT, 0-732413, Second lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 1244 W. 60th Terrace, Kansas City, Mo. 'MILLARD V. STUNKARD, T-I86613, Flight Officer, 27th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Hamilton Field, Calif. 'WILLIAM A. BENNERGREN. JR., T-186612, Flight Officer, 27th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 666 Center Street, Logan, Utah. >’suant to authority 11. Under the provisions of AR 600-45• as amended, and pu’.'si b, letter, Headcontained in Circular No. 126, Headquarters NAT0U3A, 2 July 1943» quarters NAAF, file 210.5, 3° May 1943 and letter, Headquarters FFifteenth Air Leaf Cluster (Bronze) Force, file 210.5, 3 November 1943» the Eighth (8th) Oak ?sonnel, Air Corps, Army of for the Air Medal is awarded the following named per: beds the^United States, residence and citation as indicate ■<JAMES P. DIBBIE, 0-733844. First Lieutenant, 94th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter A Group, RR #1, Hastings, Mich. For the destruction of one (1) enemy aircraft, j type Me-109, 26 August 1943* / >n, First Fighter J JOHN T. HANTON,. 0-667072, Second Lieutenant, 94th Fighter Squadroi — ».«—aapolis, Minn. For the destruction cof one (1) enemy iue', JMinnes Group, 3744 16th Avenue-, . aircraft, type life-110, ), 22 Julyr 1943. WAITER J. SCHRANZ, O-73638I, Second Lieutenant, 27th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Portland Air Base, Oregon. For the destruction of one (1) enemy aircraft, type Fi-15&» 4 September 1943* 1 IRVINE M. STIER, T-186610, Flight Officer, 27th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Hamilton Field, Calif, For the destruction of one (1) enemy aircraft, type Ma-202, 21 August 1943* 12. Under the provisions of AR 600-45. as amended, and pursuant to authority contained in Circular No. 126, Headquarters NATOUSA, 2 July 1943, letter, Head quarters NAAF, file 210.5, 30 May 1943 and letter, Headquarters Fifteenth Air Force, file 210.5, 3 November 1943, the Ninth (9th) Oak Leaf Cluster (Bronze) for the Air Medal is awarded the following named personnel, Air Corps, Amy_of the United States, residence as indicated, for meritorious achievement while participating in five (5) sorties against the enemy: -16- �. fasntofe* ''K (GO #2, Headquarters '42nd Wing (US), dated 15 November 1943, contd.) /ERNEST A. CHAPlAN, 0-733821, First lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Arbor Road, Winston Salem, EJ. C. “/RODNEY '.V. FISHER, 0-733858, First lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 1318 Swanston Drive, Sacramento, Calif. * JAKES J. HAGENBACK, 0-13223: ?3» First Lieutenant, 94-th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 6807 )7 Osceolaa. Avenue, Chicago, Ill. jOTTO A. HLOUCAL, JR., 0-729339, First Lieutenant, 27th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Rural Route Jl, Ellsworth, Kansas. JBURDETTE E. NYGREN, O-72936O, First Lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Route #3, Wayne, Neb. V CHARLES E. SCHREFFLER, 0-734000, First lieutenai mt, 71st Fighter Squadron, First /Fighter Group, R.R. #1, Iibnnds Road, Anderson, Ind. : <UEX MICHAEL SENTES, 0-734003, First lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 2231 11th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. RICHARD E. SHEARER, 0-730634, First Lieutenant, 71st Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 618 N. West Street, Carlisle, Penna. WALTER J. SCHRAN3, 0-736331, Second lieutenant, 27th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Portland Air Base, Oregon. 'IRVINE M..STYER, T-186610,1 Flight Officer, 27th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Hamilton Field, Cali.if. 13, Under the provisions of AR 600-45, as amended, and pursuant to authority contained in Circular Jfo. 126, Headquarters NATOUSA. 2 July 1943, letter, Head quarters NAAF, file 210.5, 30 May 1943 a114 letter, Headquarters Fifteenth Air Force, file 210.5, 3 November 1943, the Ninth (9th) Oak Leaf Cluster (Bronae) for the Air Medal is awarded the following named personnel, Air Corps, Army of the United States, residence and citation as indicated! 'JAMES E. BOWER, O-728963, First Lieutenant, 94th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, Xenia, Ill. For the destruction of one (1) enemy aircraft, type Me-109, 20 August 1943. <fAMES P. DIBBLE, I 0-733844, First lieutenant, 94th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, RR1 #1, Hastings, Mich. For the destruction of one (1) enemy Aircraft, type Me-109, 28 August 1943« z' ‘HAROLD P. NILES. 0-732321, First Lieutenajmt, 94th Fighter Squadron, First Fighter Group, 3000 N. E. 41st Street, Portland, (Oregon. For the destruction of one (1) eneny aircraft, type Ms-109, 27 August 1£! 1943. -17- � 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: Combat! Description An account of the resource James spent his combat time based out of North Africa and helped clear the way for the eventual invasion of Italy in 1943. He was a member of the 94th Air Squadron, <a href="https://www.1stfg.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">1st Fighter Group</a>, and flew the famous twin-engined P-38. Learn more about the P-38 at: <ul><li><a href="http://www.aviation-history.com/lockheed/p38.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aviation History online Museum</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj_1pKiyOT5AhXUkIkEHWqSCb8QFnoECAMQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Ftechnology%2FP-38&usg=AOvVaw25-9_sOlkuv_UPtZBhV1Ma" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Britannica.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj_1pKiyOT5AhXUkIkEHWqSCb8QFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLockheed_P-38_Lightning&usg=AOvVaw0_UoxVGVbZOtad9vsjWvhW" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wikipedia</a><a href="http://www.aviation-history.com/lockheed/p38.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a></li> </ul> Don't miss the section titled Day of Armageddon recapping the events of August 30, 1943. This air battle over Italy ultimately earned James the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was lucky to survive - many pilots made the ultimate sacrifice. See photos, letters, mission reports and more about James' time spent in combat over Africa and Italy in 1942 and 1943. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed document 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 Order awarding Lt. Dibble the 8th and 9th Oak Leaf Clusters for his Air Medal for downing two Me. 109s Subject The topic of the resource United States. Air Force. 12th Air Force. 94th Fighter Squadron. Description An account of the resource Order awarding Lt. Dibble the 8th and 9th Oak Leaf Clusters for his Air Medal for downing two Me. 109s. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medal Award Report Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/15/1943 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/13/336/Dibble_Text0143.pdf f9a6a543a25cedcc22211d8e57c06794 PDF Text Text '. Page 3 1st Fighter News May 1993 Stan Wojcik Shot Down! In our January 1993 issue, we told how Cy Nolen was shot down, captured, and escaped. Now we have the story ofStan Wojcik, who was shot down on hisfirst mission, was captured, and wasfinally liberated by the Russians in 1945. He has additional data on the fate of his flight lead, Lt. Dibble. turn, pulling i up, saw smoke from Dibble's plane. I pulled up alongsid gside and above to see what he was doing. I saw no movement by him, just smoke and fire in the cockpit He may have been wounded or dead so I pulled away. I felt a couple of thuds, the plane’s nose section erupted On September 9,19431 was to go on a mission that was *n flames and smoke extending into the cockpit, blasting my head to provide cover for the invasion of Italy at Salerno. Prior to this and317115 wldl heat. I immediately pulled the release on the top I was one of a group of replacement P-40 pilots that were diverted, canopy and the slip stream blew it off. I had to pull my helmet off onAugust24, to the First Fighter Group, which was flying P-38’s because the headset wires and oxygen mask were attached. Istood and in need of pilots at Mateur. Having flown only single engine up, pushing backwards, and yvas sucked out and rolled off the at:about 2,000 feet. I waited to clearthe tail and pulled planes it was quite a shock to me, but once it wore off it became trailing edge at therip ripcord. cord. IIv a matter of survival. the was going over 300 mph and the chute opened with quite ajerk. Lookingdownlsawanopenfield.butlwasoverhigh " :tric wires. I slipped the chute by climbing up the shroud After a lot ofcockpit time, ground instruction and limited power elect! wires and anc before letting go of the shroud lines, I ;cd the wites manual information, I did takeoff and started to get used to the lines, missed •'und about twice the normal speed, somersaulted and plane. The only time wecould fly was when the squadron missions hit the groun >ut 100 feet. I didn’t break any bones, since I had my were over or not scheduled. This didn’t go over too well with the rolled about grout ind crew, but things got better. Our overuse of brakes for combat shoes on. taxiing was frownedI iupon. Test firing of guns over the Mediterranean added more] : problems for the armament keptfalling falling -------- oguys. _,_. IIkept off the ladder whil ile trying to climb up on an the plane, plane. Being 5'4", I always had a problem with short leg reach. Durir ing this time I constantly' practiced pra escape procedures. I also had ai tbad feeling of fire and bumi mning. Finally the orders came to move temporarily to Dittaino, Sicily. I was put in charge of squadron baggage, which was to be transported on a B-26 bomber. The landing at Sicily was downwind, on the wrong field, and the B-26 got stuck in the lava soil that couldn’tsupport the weight. We unloaded onto a truck and left the plane and the pilots with a bulldozer to move to solid ground. Later, in a P.O.W. camp, I met the B-26 co-pilot, who had been shot down on a bombing mission. His pilot was killed. He told me that after the problems at Dittaino, they returned to Africa after dark and were shot at by friendly fire, but landed OK. Italy capitulated, but the invasion was on. At the briefing before flight, we were told we would be given a target to strafe after ourpatrol. I was the wingman for J. Dibble, the flight leader, and we were to patrol the Pears area. The patrol at approximately 10,000 feet was uneventful. A ground controller radioed us a target; a motor convoy 30 miles inland of Agropoli of some 400 vehicles on a road between Pola and lagonegro, moving g north, north. While at 10,000 feet my tight helmet, with goggles and oxygen oxygen mask, was very uncomfortable, so I loosened my chin strap “ p and and mask on the way down to strafe, with combat flaps aps down and a prayer. We came in from the sun and made a run in a valley /alley in the mountains. Fired guns, lot of vehicles, racked into a 180 degree As I was getting out of my harness, I heard and saw a German soldier waving a gun, shouting; ;and motioning me to come in his direction. He was on the strafed road1 v" up on an embankment, My face and arms were burned and my eyes res felt seared, so I was having a hard time getting up the bank. He reached down and helped me up onto the road. He disarmed me and flag; agged down a jeep-type German vehicle with two other soldiers ins inside. I was ving with the seated in the front, and the air blast created by drivir time. Seeing windshield folded down was giving my face a roughi ti. thisdriver stopped and put the windshield up and offered me a cigarette. Theytook me to a flrst aid tent, but only checked me over briefly, then I was taken to German headquarters. The guard told a German officer, who was looking out a window, what had happened and who I was. The officer waved us on. I was taken to a school building that had medical facilities. My arms and face were bandaged and I spent that night in a hallway on some straw, with other wounded Americans. There were a lot of explosions during the night. The next day, in late afternoon, they put me and others in an ambulance to go north. A German soldier was making a fuss because my name was Polish, but he was pulled away. The drivers stoppedforabreak.evidentlytostretch their legs. The ambulance started to move, with no driver! There was a lot of yelling in the ambulance, and I tried to get out, but just banged my elbows. The driver ran up in time and ar got us stopped. (Continued) �Page 4 1st Fighter News May 1993 Stan Wojcik - Shot Down, Injured, Captured - Survived! (Continued) The next morning we arrived at another school that was medically equipped, and where there were more wounded Ameri cans, British and Germans. By then I was very lame and sore. They tried to change my bandages, but they stuck, dried to my bums. Finally, with a quick jerk, they pulled them off. I was getting weak, when I suddenly remembered it was my birthday. My sight was getting worse, and I spent that night lying on a stretcher, delirious off and on during the night. A German medic orderly did what he could. They moved us out the next day in the back of a truck,’ headed for Naples. During the trip some of the American guys got Jt grapes at the relief stops and squeezed them through my burned lips. We saw a lot of refugees, and when we got to Naples our aitals because of the t chaotic condi drivers couldn’t get to the hospitals tions due to partisan activities. We traveled through the night: tand came to the town of Casino, located below a monastery, and1 ■were put up in a church. ': ]past my The Germans got some pudding for me so I could get it lips. My sight was really bad. Someone went berserk,, and not being able to see much, I got upset. But an American wounded sergeant calmed me down. A German guard led me across the street to a German ran hospital. A German doctor checked my eyes and put ointment in them, and told an interpreter to tell me that my eyes would recover. They put us on an ambulance train and we headed north. As we passed through Rome the other wounded guys got stuff from the Italians at the station stops. I told them to take my escape money. Earlier, the German guards didn’t seem to know what to do about my escape kit and didn’t take it or my personal watch. A nurse on the train sharpened a hypo needle and gave me morphine. I could hardly see, I knew I was getting weaker, and the bandages were a mess. Finally, on September 18,1943, at a stop in Germany, I heard a lot of commotion and I was put on a stretcher. The bearers were running with me, so I knew I was in bad shape. I hoped they were taking me someplace where I could get some treatment. I heard a lot of German talk that I couldn’t understand, but I knew I was in a buildir ‘ When I woke up, I vaguely saw building. I’ passed out. a smiling nun with a white head dress standing ne lunwithawhite next to me, offering meadrink.:. I thought I was in heaven. Itookadrir I took a drink through a glass straw, and1 passed >sed out on again. When I woke up an English speaking nun said I had slept for 24 hours, and they were worried. She also told me I was in a Catholic convent, part of which had been made into a hospital for heart problems and skin problems, such as burns, frostbite, etc. Some of the nuns were also nurses and were all smiles because I had a crucifix on my dog tag chain and I was a Catholic. The doctor, a middle age man, was very professional and so were the civilian nurses. In the room with me was a badly burned B-25 pilot. He was in great pain and needed a lot of attention. Later in a P.O.W. ____ wounded soldiers. camp, in 1944, he was exchanged for German My eyes were improving up. My lips - and- my -bums were drying were a mess and tbey bad t0 cut jnt0 smap s]jlivers so I could 7^^ had burned all my clolhes because they \were full of maggOts. They gave me hospital type clothes and sli lippers to Wear. They had me up in a week, but I was lame. They gave me a German uniform stripped of insignia and walked me outside to get ready for travel. My eyes would fog up from the cool air. I was getting abscesses on my wrists, elbows and armpits. A guard came to take me to a P.O.W. camp, but the doctor saw how bad my abscesses were and said I couldn’t go. They gave me therapy machine treatments, but they finally had to lance my elbow and wrist. In two weeks I developed an abscess in my throat and the doctor sent a guard away again. It took a week with hot potato compresses around my neck before it broke. All this time 1 couldn’t eat or even swallow saliva. Although I was getting over the abscesses, I still wasn’t »ling well. The doctor checked me over, seeing the yellow skin feelir id the yellow in my eyes. He said I had yellow jaundice and was andu to> stay s'" in bed for five weeks. The nuns were overjoyed that I would ay with them longer. They gave me extra meat and milk and stay wrapped my body, around the liver area, with hot towels. The B-25 pilot was getting better, and seeing how he was always looked after, he wanted to become a Catholic. In a secret ceremony, in the room with a priest, nun and me as a sponsor, he became a Catholic. I might Jit add that all religious property was in COntrol of the German gove ivernment and the nuns’ and thej priest’s activities were restricted.. 1There was very little Gestapo1 activii activity j;--------------- . -u ... L------ t-.j the Russjan jn the hospital, but a soldier patient told us how bad the Russian front was and that Hitler should be hanged. It may have been a bait for any reaction. It was nearing Christmas time and I was over my jaun dice. Iwastoldlwouldn’tleaveuntilJanuary 1944, so I could look after the B-25 pilot until he was ready to travel. My burns had healed with no scars, but the B-25 pilot was a mess. His lips, eyelids, ears, arms, and face were badly scarred. He had lost most of the use of one arm. I fed him and bathed him when I was able. At Christmas we got packages with cakes, wine, and beer, the same as the German soldiers. I went to midnight Mass with an officer who was a patient. It was in the convent chapel and even the townspeople attended. We were taken for walks, always with a guard, and we saw a lot of the countryside. There were ■>. — They always took our shoes away plenty of shrines and villages. jught of escape, but never got any once we were inside. I thou contact. ( Continued) �Page 5 1st Fighter News May 1993 Stan Wojcik - Shot Down, Injured, Captured - Survived! (Continued) The convent/hospital was on the bank of the Danube, Our food consisted of barley, horse meat (that had been which was just a small stream, and about 75 miles from the border killed by strafing), potatoes, rutabaga, and Red Cross packages. I of Switzerland. An inspecting army major asked me about my was ration man for 9 P.O.W.’s that shared food. I was cook Polish ancestry, but I said only that my parents were bom in the (cooked in the room) for 6 months. Things got bleak toward the It United States and were United States citizens. I wasn’t interro- end. We got letters and packages from home. We saw a lot of headf for Berlin. We saw and heard British Mosquigated all the time I was a P.O.W. Of course, I didn’t know bombers heading anything. The rest of the soldier patients never mentioned any- toes beat up an airfield 3 miles away and shoot down a FW-190. lotof , night raids. One lasted all night, as they went thing. The B-25 pilot and I were in a small room, just the two of We heard a lot us. The patients would bring their wives and kids to see us as a after Peenemunde rocket station. We saw a lot of jet and a rocket novelty. lights lightsand andtrails trailsover overthe theBaltic. Baltic. We Wewere werenever neverbombed bombedor < strafed, even when the Russians were near. A lot of eastern German InmidJanuary, 1944, a guard showed up and escorted me refugees and Allied P.O.W.’s were fleeing the Russians. and the B-25 pilot to a British officer P.O.W. camp about a half day trip away by train. When we arrived I was given a French At the end there were a lot of rumors, of being\ sshot by the SS, uniform that looked likea World Warl type uniform. We were put or moving everybody west. But the main Russi sian thmst was in a camp medical dispensary. After 2 weeks I was put in a for Berlin, so the Germans decided to leave and left the camp to barracks with British and Canadians. The British fixed me up with us. Russians showed up in a few days and the agreement was a British uniform without any insignia. An American P-51 pilot finally made to fly about 9,000 of us out by B-17's and C-46’s was brought in also. The B-25 pilot stayed in the dispensary all the to France. time. We stayed at this camp until mid February of 1944. With two guards and a couple of boxes of food, we were taken to another camp for airman officers on the Baltic Sea (Stalag Luft 1), at the town of Barth. We traveled 3 days and 2 nightsson < civilian passenger trains. We stopped at a German equivalent it to our USO’s and guards would bring us beer at station stops. Thir hings started to look bad as we went through the northern cit ities. When we got to Berlin to change trains we saw fields of graves, ( burned out buildings, and rubble in the streets, The dam; raged railroad station was full of people, pushing and shoving,, tmilling around to get on trains. I saw a Coke machine; that shoo' rook me. There was noroom on theconnecting train, and we would have to wait until the next day. The guards didn’t want to spend the night in Berlin because of the RAF raids, and to our relief, they convinced the railroad station manager that the five of us could ride standing up in the baggage section of a car until space in one of the cars became available as people got off. Everything worked out and we had plenty of room. That evening young German boys; ccame aboard the train, Wc assumed that they were going to training ig camp. When we pgot to Straslund Naval Base we stayed over night ;ht in solitary cells. We ™® were treated by the base people with no animosity. We drank cold Ersatz coffee, as water was taboo. We arrived at Barth and walked three miles to the P.O. W. camp. We logged in, had our pictures taken, and two of us were assigned to a barracks in the old original camp compound. The B25 pilot was put in the camp dispensary and wouldjoin us later. We were close to the flak school where youths trained on radar. Stan ‘Wojcit —^*^7 Doorknob Five Two The January 1993 issue of the News included Robin Hansen’s skeptical review of the book, Doorknob Five Two. The author, Fredric Arnold, sent us copies of documents which, if valid, show that the major points of the book are true. The News does not assume responsibility for any review that we publish. Robin Hansen stands by his review. Fredric Arnold has resigned from the Association. The 1st Fighter News is a forum for veterans to tell their stories. The News is not an official record; we may expect people to have different recollections of what happened, and many events will remain forever obscure. 'The 'Editor � 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: Killed in Action Description An account of the resource Typically pilots rotated home after their 50th mission. James took off for his 49th mission on Septemebr 9, 1943, and never returned. He was shot down on a straffing run near the town of Padula, Italy. Initially there was much confusion amongst the other P-38 pilots, and it was thought James survivied and may have been taken prisoner. Ultimately it was discovered that James had been shot down and then killed by German soldiers. James was ultiamtely brought home and buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Middleville, Michigan. See information on his gravesite at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40312090/james-p-dibble" target="_blank" title="James P. Dibble's Gravesite" rel="noreferrer noopener">FindAGrave.com</a>. See reports, documents and letters around James' missing in action status and then the determination that he was killed in action. Included are letters from the Army to his wife Maxine and parents, newspaper clippings and local memorials. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Printed newsletter 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 Article written by Stan Wojcik and published in the 1st Fighter News recounting the day James Dibble was shot down and Stan's time as a POW Subject The topic of the resource James Dibble. Crash. Description An account of the resource Article written by Stan Wojcik and published in the 1st Fighter News recounting the day James Dibble was shot down and Stan's time as a POW. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Essay Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stan Wojcik Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993-05 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. 1st Fighter Wing Association Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 1st Fighter Wing Association Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/12/285/Dibble_Image0077.jpg 644f7079ac0618ff99355063ece7b2da 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: The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943 Description An account of the resource From Jim Dibble's account titled "The Day of Armegeddon" included in this collection: "Following the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, the missions flown out of North Africa by the 1st Fighter Group pilots in their P-38 Lightnings had a common objective of preparing for the invasion at Salerno, Italy by the United States Fifth Army." A mission on August 25th was highly successful, with a loss of only 8 P-38's. The 1st Fighter Group earned a Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation for their efforts, but the August 30 mission, for which they would earn a second citation, was not so easy. See mission reports, photos, first hand accounts and more information about this infamous air battle known as The Day of Armageddon. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Location The location of the interview unknown Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 4" x 6" 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 P-38 pilot Lt. Frank McIntosh and his P-38 "Little Mae" Subject The topic of the resource World War II. August 30, 1943. Description An account of the resource P-38 pilot Lt. Frank McIntosh and his P-38 "Little Mae" Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black & white photograph Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940's Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/10/210/Dibble_Text0152.pdf ea27b9e080d7fd2620072689b593d648 PDF Text Text 94TH FIGHTER SQUADRON 1ST FIGHTER GROUP A.P.0. 520 K June 6, 1943. DTVD 30? UNO i:iS3I0:i - 15 P~38s, Lts. 'uinn, Face, Brophy, Cogswell, Hiller, ■ from the 27th and 71st Fighter Squadrons, took off at 1335 hours to dive bomb gun emplacement position # 7 on the island of PANTELLERIA. Formation flew at ' 6,000 feet until over water where they flew at 500 fe<^« Formation started to ' dive from 6,500 feet, dropping their bombs at 4,000 feet’. Bombing: very acjhhdnrate, hits seen directly on gun emplacement position number 7, Due to the “ "dust and emoke, it was impossible to determine-the extent of damage,, but it .. is believed that this gun emplacement position was conp?.etely destroyed, Lts. Fell, Anderson and Cronin, ‘the spares, returned and l'r. bd at 1630 hours. Flak: ‘ ... light but intense and inaccurate. Weather: to ana ever arget, hazy from zero FVbter; 1,000;feet but. clear above 1,000 feet. Time over tar. et 1530 hours. Route: to and from target, straight east, ”c ene-.v aircraft se: a. Remainder of forma tion landed at 1700 hours. 12 bombs dropped in all. r k .BC.EBZR ESCORT HISSWrION - IL P-3Ss, : Capt. Stover, Lts. Hiles, Nev.-some, Helms, ' and Pace, together with formations'* from the 27th and 71st Fighter Squadrons,'' teyic^took-dff at 1Q30 hours to escort about 45 B-l?s over PANTELLERIA, B-l?s gc*~- ' ■ " “S sBSSSfE-gBS... ft. ’ pT’ . -^he'target^^'arently did not attack Jfihem. Wehtherrto' and 'over but hazy. Lt. Dibble, turned back over Cape BON because of mechanical failure and 1 hours. Remainder of formation landed at 1415 hours. RANDOLPH A. BROWN, Capt., Air Corps, Intellige..„ ^Officer. F < ■ : 1’ 1? |p � 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. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed mission report 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 Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 6 and June 7, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource United States. Air Force. 12th Air Force. 94th Fighter Squadron. Description An account of the resource Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 6 and June 7, 1943. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Flight Mission report Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Randolph A. Brown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-06 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/11/142/Dibble_Text0063.pdf 9bf2edfacbde12e9656d6374cda0710d PDF Text Text �� 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: Letters Home Description An account of the resource Getting letters from home was always a highlight of the week for everyone overseas. They wrote home frequently as well as evidenced by the volume of James' letters. Here is a collection of letters and postcards he sent home to his wife Maxine, brother Bill and parents while serving in Africa and Italy. Be sure to look at the letter dated 1943-04-10. Notice how James indicated he censored his own letter and look at the special form he had to use to send it home. Notice on other letters where they are stamped whether they were censored or not. Like most others, James had to be careful not to divulge too much information about where he was. James was killed on September 9, 1943. Be sure to read his last letter home, sent the day before. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Hand-written letter 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 Letter from James in North Africa to his parents, 1943-04-10 Subject The topic of the resource James Dibble. Correspondence. Description An account of the resource Letter from James in North Africa to his parents. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Personal correspondence Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Dibble Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-04-10 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 2022-01-18 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/9/375/Dibble_Text0104.pdf 8dd7334f697ea4159822d7111af3dbfd PDF Text Text 'O' On August 8, 1943 Jim flew his 41st mission. The Gr^rip went out on a strafing mission. Twenty-four P-38s took off at 12:20 PM from Mateur to strafe a road and railyard south of Angitola, Italy. The squadron flew low over the Mediterranean to avoid enemy radar. At Angitola, the P-3 8s came in over the railyard with complete surprise. Several trains were strafed, two engines were destroyed and several railroad cars exploded, indicating that they were carrying ammunition. The element of surprise was achieved because if the enemy were aware of the approaching planes, they could put up a wall of ground fire. The Germans had special cars on most of their military trains that were heavily armed with anti-aircraft weapons. They looked like any other railcar but on attack the car siding could be dropped to permit some very concentrated and effective fire. During this mission, Jim's plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire and lost an engine. He wrote home the following day and described what happened: "I'm going to attempt to give you the thoughts of a pilot when he gets into a tough spot. I ought to know -three times I've come home on one engine - flak holes - enemy fighters - and even a .30 caliber rifle firedfrom the ground while strafing enemy troops. Can you imagine seeing a truckfull of men suddenly explode into flames from the bullets released by the touch ofyour forefinger. Men running and you in sort ofa fiendish glow of murderous instinct, mowing them down. No thoughts of anything - your mind a blank Pilots have been so concentrated on a target that they have flown right into it with a terrific explosion. No one that hasn't strafed can understand why. But it continues to happen no matter how many warnings are in the pilot's brain. Pulling up offthe target almost ticking the hilltop -1 guess I gave it to those bastards. Suddenly your plane lurches - almost flips on its back! My God but you are scared, but only for a flash. All the months of intense training you had take over. You have your wings only because your reactions are split second, and way ahead ofyour brain. You have seen fellow cadets washout not so much because they couldn't fly but because when this happened they would be 20 feet in the ground. Before you know it the plane is level, the left engine has the gas shut off, propeller feathered to decrease parasite drag which might not let you continue flying. Maybe you shut it offjust before it was to explode into flame just like that truck you just left - who knows? Anyway here you are. - How in hell did all those holes get in that engine and wing. I guess those poor jerks down there were trying to kill me, but they didn't know that I wasn't due for about sixty years yet. Better get someone to escort me home. Who knows, the whole Luftwaffe may be upstairs waiting for me. The old radio is working thank God, so in a couple minutes a couple or three ofyour buddies are weavingjust over your head, ready to take on anyone that has any ideas of hurting you. Do you love 'em - what a wonderful bunch ofguys that are flying with you. How's my good engine? By this time you are screamingfor home with nothing more to worry about than 300 miles of open sea and whether or not your good engine is going to hold up! What if there are some bullets in it? Maybe it's going to stop any second. off. Not the Gosh its getting too hot! Open up all the shutters and cool that damn thing off �damn thing really, instead the wonderful good old American engine that will run forever ifgiven halfa chance. Baby it and how. Good, it's ticking along beautifully, keep it up. My generator is shot out and the battery must be getting low. Shut the radio off, props in manual control. Booster pumps off inverter, no that runs the compass, got to have that. I guess that's all the electric equipment I can shut off. Gas, that wonderful stuff that keeps you up there. They say it costs $2.00 a gallon by the time it gets to us. How much - not too much, so the mixture leaned out, r.p.m.s lowered, just enough power on to keep up a good speed Wow, am I hot, soaked with sweat and it's still pouring out. Well, we're out of danger from the enemy now so relax. Darn, but my rear end aches. It ought to, for the last four hours I have sat in this one spot. And what a spot - 5'7" and my head bumps the top of the canopy ifI stretch a little. Tall guys which there are a few of must have trouble. That Co-2 bottle in your seat dinghy is like sitting on a fist sized rock ; Release your safety belt which helps for a couple ofminutes. Take a swig ofwater out ofyour canteen which by this time is warm as , well warm. Light up a cigarette and really enjoy it. Gosh I wish I was back to the field would! ever hit the sack There's land and pretty soon the field -oh gosh a strong cross wind to make a single engine landing in. Well, here goes - I've had two before - but without a cross-wind I guess it won't be so hard tho - just keep on the ball. Heck that wasn't hard at all - as good as a regular landing. Wow! look at the crowd coming out to look at the holes. The crew chief is actually proud - "look at the holes in my plane" -he says. "And it came back Oh hell, I guess it will be an engine change. Why couldn't they have hit a less vital spot?" - On the ground it's the crew chiefs plane - only in the air does it belong to the pilot. Pilots argue about who has the best crew chiefand crew chiefs the reverse. Oh well, here comes the Colonel. Well, he just congratulated you on a good job of bringing the plane back Well hell, what about bringing myself back? But I guess that goes without saying. One hundred thirty five holes in the plane, and two through the cockpit, well, C'est Le Guerre." � 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: Combat! Description An account of the resource James spent his combat time based out of North Africa and helped clear the way for the eventual invasion of Italy in 1943. He was a member of the 94th Air Squadron, <a href="https://www.1stfg.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">1st Fighter Group</a>, and flew the famous twin-engined P-38. Learn more about the P-38 at: <ul><li><a href="http://www.aviation-history.com/lockheed/p38.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aviation History online Museum</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj_1pKiyOT5AhXUkIkEHWqSCb8QFnoECAMQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Ftechnology%2FP-38&usg=AOvVaw25-9_sOlkuv_UPtZBhV1Ma" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Britannica.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj_1pKiyOT5AhXUkIkEHWqSCb8QFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLockheed_P-38_Lightning&usg=AOvVaw0_UoxVGVbZOtad9vsjWvhW" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wikipedia</a><a href="http://www.aviation-history.com/lockheed/p38.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a></li> </ul> Don't miss the section titled Day of Armageddon recapping the events of August 30, 1943. This air battle over Italy ultimately earned James the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was lucky to survive - many pilots made the ultimate sacrifice. See photos, letters, mission reports and more about James' time spent in combat over Africa and Italy in 1942 and 1943. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data unknown 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 Account by James Dibble after his plane was badly damaged and lost an engine on a mission in Italy, August 9, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource James Dibble. Combat. Description An account of the resource Account by James Dibble after his plane was badly damaged and lost an engine on a mission in Italy, August 9, 1943. Introduction by Jim Dibble, nephew. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Mission report Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Dibble Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-08 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/13/339/Dibble_Text0221.pdf f7e6471b4eee7c7fa75452026a14cc1b PDF Text Text Hastings residents who died in World War II Name Richard A. Babcock Cleo E. Card Charles A. Casey Georqe H. Cashmore Lewis Castle William A. Christy Orville Cooley Bernard D. Davis William DeCou James P. Dibble Robert C. Gardner Martin Hawthorne Robert H. Henney Ernest M. Howell Merrill E. Isham Frank R. "Bob" Kelly Neil L. Kidder Estle V. King Hubert L. McCallum Michael "Mickey" G. H. McPharlin Harold W. Norwood Robert Reid Frank W. Rogers Howard A. Shellington Cleon L. Smith Donald L. Solomon DeForest Snyder Jr. Duane D. Stamm Merle G. Tasker Wesley R. VanDenberg Morton F. Young Rank Corp. Sgt. Fireman, 2nd C Pfc. medically disch Staff Sqt. 1 st Lt. Staff Sqt. 1 st Lt. Pfc. 2nd Lt. 2nd Lt. Pvt. Pfc. Staff Sgt. Pvt. Technician, 4tf Pvt. Major Pvt. Pfc. 2nd Lt. Lt 2nd Lt. Corp. Technician, 5th 2nd Lt. Sgt. 2nd Lt. Machinists Mate Date of Birth Sept. 8, 1923 Dec. 11, 1910 Apr. 22, 1927 Nov. 22, 1924 Feb. 23, 1921 Oct. 16, 1926 1923 abt. 1919 abt. 1924 Nov. 3, 1921 Dec. 30, 1923 Jan. 19, 1919 Dec. 20, 1917 no date 1916 Jan. 22, 1923 1917 1911 Dec. 14, 1909 Oct. 16, 1922 Aug. 4, 1919 Oct. 3, 1923 Jun. 15, 1919 Aug. 14, 1914 28-May-21 Jun. 13, 1913 Aug. 27, 1922 File Updated: 9/20/2022 This document was provided by Jim Dibble in a hardcopy form. Contents have not been verified and are reported as is Minor edits were done for readability. August 18, 2022. DME Parents Ray/Luella (Talmage) Babcock Joseph/Clarissa (Dudley) Card Winifred/Alice (Johncock) Casey orphan Frank/Flossie (Lectka) Castle Foster mother Nellie Clemence M/M Stephen J. Cooley M/M Henry Davis Clair/Hazel DeCou James E./Estelle M Dibble Roy/Margaretha Gardner M/M Ralph Hawthorne Fred/Lusena (Nichols) Henney M/M Daniel Howell Howard/Sarah (Hammond) Isham Frank/Gladys (Beck) Kelly M/M Clem Kidder Rev./Mrs Fred W. King Donald "DanVRosa M. McCallum Russell/Frances Germain Norwood William/Alta (Callihan) Reid M/M Frank Rogers Emmett/Mary Shellington Ernest/Sopha Smith M/M Charles Solomon DeForest/Hazel (Barnum) Snyder M/M L. D. Stamm M/M Oliver Tasker M/M Charles VanDenberq John and ? Young Rural School Burroughs, Johnstown Macomber Hinds Assyria Baltimore Twp. Carlton Center Barney Mills Graduated 1939 1944 1942 1937 1941 1939 1940 1937 1943 1935 1933 Dunham Brush Ridge Starr Dowling Ryan Assyria 1934 1928 1930 1927 Original Occupation Family farm Hastings Manufacturing High school student Kellogg Co. Battle Creek Ionia Kroger Schultz Bakery, Chicago Union Stamp and Pump Company Produce Manager, Hastings Kroger MSU Ag Econ Degree Family farm Ralston Purina, Weston Biscuit Co. Lineman Wilcox-Rich in Battle Creek College student Family farm, owned sawmill Eaton Manufacturing 1937 1941 1937 WMU BS Tool and die apprentice MSU engineeering degree 1942 1940 1943 1933 1940 1924 Woolworth Asst, Mgr., Sandusky State fish hatchery, Hastings Kellogg Co. Battle Creek Page 1 of 3 �Hastings residents who died in World War II Name Richard A. Babcock Cleo E. Card Charles A. Casey Georqe H. Cashmore Lewis Castle William A. Christy Orville Cooley Bernard D. Davis William DeCou James P. Dibble Robert C. Gardner Martin Hawthorne Robert H. Henney Ernest M. Howell Merrill E. Isham Frank R. "Bob" Kelly Neil L. Kidder Estle V. King Hubert L. McCallum Michael "Mickey" G. H. McPharlin Harold W. Norwood Robert Reid Frank W. Rogers Howard A. Shellington Cleon L. Smith Donald L. Solomon DeForest Snyder Jr. Duane D. Stamm Merle G. Tasker Wesley R. VanDenberg Morton F. Young Branch Army Army Navy Marines Air Corps Armv Army Air Corps Army Air Corps Army Air Corps Army Air Force Army Army Army Army Air Corps Army Army Army British Royal Air Force Army Army Marines Army Air Corps Army Air Force Army Army Army National Guard Unit Infantry Co. M, 411th Inf Duties Military policeman Machine gunner Fireman 4th Marine Division, 1st Amphibious Corps, Marine R 79th Division, 7th Army First Fighter Group Fighter pilot Age at Death Date of Death 22 Nov. 29, 1945 34 Feb. 27, 1945 17 Feb. 21, 1945 August 1944 18 abt. 21 abt. 23 20 21 21 Fighter pilot Ordinance Armorer-gunner 36th Armored Regiment, 3rd Division 11th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Co. B. 103rd Combat Battalion Third Infantry Division 131st Infantry Regiment of the 33rd 2nd Bombardment Pilot Fighter pilot Veteran, chemical warfare service 19 abt. 28 21 21 28 abt. 33 22 25 21 28 23 File Updated: 9/20/2022 This document was provided by Jim Dibble in a hardcopy form. Contents have not been verified and are reported as is Minor edits were done for readability. August 18, 2022. DME March 1944 March 24, 1945 Feb. 2, 1945 June 25, 1945 Dec. 1, 1943 June 1, 1942 Sept. 10, 1944 32nd "Red Arrow" Division 29 Army Navy Aug. 30, 1945 Jan. 8, 1945 May 5, 1942 March 3, 1944 Sept. 9, 1943 Feb. 22, 1945 Jan. 22, 1944 Jan. 29, 1944 April 25, 1945 May 14, 1945 Jan. 14, 1945 July 17, 1944 Jan. 25, 1949 Dec. 9, 1944 Co. E. 361st Infantry Platoon commander Jan. 1, 1943 Oct. 11, 1944 Page 2 of 3 �Hastings residents who died in World War II Name Richard A. Babcock Cleo E. Card Charles A. Casey Georqe H. Cashmore Lewis Castle William A. Christy Orville Cooley Bernard D. Davis William DeCou James P. Dibble Robert C. Gardner Martin Hawthorne Robert H. Henney Ernest M. Howell Merrill E. Isham Frank R. "Bob" Kelly Neil L. Kidder Estle V. King Hubert L. McCallum Michael "Mickey" G. H. McPharlin Harold W. Norwood Robert Reid Frank W. Rogers Howard A. Shellington Cleon L. Smith Donald L. Solomon DeForest Snyder Jr. Duane D. Stamm Merle G. Tasker Wesley R. VanDenberg Morton F. Young Where Died Battle Cause KIA Wounds received Drowned KIA Final Resting Place France Germany Waters near Iwo Jima Iwo Jima Iwo Jima Iwo Jima Dearborn France Panama San Bernadino, CA Italy Germany New Guinea Cassino, Italy Luzon, Philippines Camp Atterbury, Ind. Derben, Germany France Lipperscheid, Luxembourg France Anemia Battle of the Bulge KIA Plane crash Aircraft accident Plane shot down Explosion Plane shot down KIA KIA Malaria Plane shot down Wounds received KIA KIA Dowling Cemetery Riverside Cemetery, Hastings Cisterna, Italy Luzon, Philippines Mt. Whitney, CA Maros, Dutch East Indies Anzio North Cemetery, Hickory Corners Hastings Township Cemetery Riverside Cemetery, Hastings Freeport Cemetery Taralic, Japan Orleans, France "March of Death" New Guinea Italy File Updated: 9/20/2022 This document was provided by Jim Dibble in a hardcopy form. Contents have not been verified and are reported as is Minor edits were done for readability. August 18, 2022. DME KIA KIA Airplane accident Plane shot down Airplane accident cerebral malaria Wounds received Plane crash KIA Mortar fire France Henri-Chapelle; Liege, Belgium Sea Union/Joy Cemetery, Maple Grove Township Riverside Cemetery, Hastings Mt. Hope, Middleville Striker Cemetery, Maple Grove Rock Island National Cemetery, Illinois Riverside Cemetery, Hastings. New Albany, Ind., National Cemetery Union/Joy Cemetery, Maple Grove Township Wilcox Cemetery, Maple Grove Luxembourg American Cemetery Riverside Cemetery, Hastings. Portland Hastings Township Cemetery Riverside Cemetery, Hastings Wilcox Cemetery, Maple Grove Page 3 of 3 � 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: Killed in Action Description An account of the resource Typically pilots rotated home after their 50th mission. James took off for his 49th mission on Septemebr 9, 1943, and never returned. He was shot down on a straffing run near the town of Padula, Italy. Initially there was much confusion amongst the other P-38 pilots, and it was thought James survivied and may have been taken prisoner. Ultimately it was discovered that James had been shot down and then killed by German soldiers. James was ultiamtely brought home and buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Middleville, Michigan. See information on his gravesite at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40312090/james-p-dibble" target="_blank" title="James P. Dibble's Gravesite" rel="noreferrer noopener">FindAGrave.com</a>. See reports, documents and letters around James' missing in action status and then the determination that he was killed in action. Included are letters from the Army to his wife Maxine and parents, newspaper clippings and local memorials. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Spreadsheet printout 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 List of Hastings, Michigan veterans who died in World War II Subject The topic of the resource Hastings, Michigan. War Memorials. Description An account of the resource List of Hastings, Michigan veterans who died in World War II. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource List Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource unknown Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/12/314/Dibble_Text0229.pdf 87113ce0e8914b458ef5d107fcbbdfab PDF Text Text �� 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: The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943 Description An account of the resource From Jim Dibble's account titled "The Day of Armegeddon" included in this collection: "Following the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, the missions flown out of North Africa by the 1st Fighter Group pilots in their P-38 Lightnings had a common objective of preparing for the invasion at Salerno, Italy by the United States Fifth Army." A mission on August 25th was highly successful, with a loss of only 8 P-38's. The 1st Fighter Group earned a Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation for their efforts, but the August 30 mission, for which they would earn a second citation, was not so easy. See mission reports, photos, first hand accounts and more information about this infamous air battle known as The Day of Armageddon. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Hand-written letter 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 Notes from Lt. Frank McIntosh clarifying events of August 30, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource World War II. August 30, 1943. Description An account of the resource Notes from Lt. Frank McIntosh clarifying events of August 30, 1943. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Historical account Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lt. Frank McIntosh Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource unknown Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/10/211/Dibble_Text0153.pdf d46a520a2a75be55489885c196c0f083 PDF Text Text 94TH FIG.’l'LE SQUADRON 1ST FJGNTER GROUP A.P.O. 520 June 8, 1943. K'iH- PH. LGPin ::i35K.‘i: - 21 Ccpt. Cover, Its. Riles, Fell, Helms, Free 111—. Cronin, Hagenbaok, Sager, Boose, Cogswell, Whalen, Sokol, Quinn, Bower, Brophy, Gilliam, Stephan, Pace, Killer, .Anderson, and Esser, each carrying 1 x 1000 lb. bomb (,1 and ,025 fuses), together with formations from the 27th and 71st Fighter Squadrons, took off at 0910 hours to dive bomb gun emplacement position #3 on PArrrET.TF.RTA. Formation flew due east to target at 6,500 feet and dived to 4,000 feet before dropping their bombs. Direct hits were scored on target but extent of damage could not be seen because of dust and dirt and the shelling of the Island r.y 14 heavy cruisers and destroyers. Flak: light, not intense but accurate. Fo enemy aircraft'seen, Weather: to and .ver target, Cr-VU. Time over target 1128 hours. Lt. Bower returned :.r : srje, 2 dine at 1220 hours, Lt. Quinn landed at Enfideville at 1225 hoars to refuel, , pk off at 1320 hours and landed hero ' at'1440 hours. It. Cronin is missing, 10 oombs are known to have been dropped. Remainder of formation land. ’. :t 1>;.5 5. : '• June 9, 1943. ^^^t^'lfetBCMBI^AW-BCtOlR^CORT MISSION - 19 P-38b, Capt. Wellenaiek, Lts, Pace, JQRT MISSION - 19 p-38s, Capt. wellensiek, ' Bnicombe. Opdahl. Quinn,' Niles, Hasenback, Cogswell, Miller, Bower, Whalen, r 0^ ii:ioo6M7i^rGiri»i\O25,fises)^ together with formations from the £7th • aaft'TlBt .Fighter Squadrons, took off at 1210 hours to dive bomb gun emplacement ■ ? r I k... E< p L f . an Ke.109. Our formation then escorted the B-17s back over PANTEIIERIA, B-17s goirg over-target at^3J8,QPOfeet,„Pr3?6 at 19,000 feet at 1430 hours. Our Squadron went.w ■ not-intense. Route: direct to P/uMSIIERIA, back to CAPE BOM to escort B-l?e, thenb to hAV’.' ry::.-r-d buck * .cathey to on: ever t?r ;et, CAVU. Lt. Filler I.-;-/ at 1610 hours. Lt, Sager landed at S6LIMAN A/D on CAFE BON at 1445 hours because t of a shortage of. gas. He took off at 1520 hour®, and landed at 1620 hours. Remaind| of formation landed at 1545 hours., ■ RANDOLPH A. BROWN, k Intelligence Officer. N< � 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. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed mission report 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 Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 8 and June 9, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource United States. Air Force. 12th Air Force. 94th Fighter Squadron. Description An account of the resource Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 8 and June 9, 1943. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Flight Mission report Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Randolph A. Brown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-06 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/11/144/Dibble_Text0065.pdf b2d058b5e748f71207bc9a0480be7930 PDF Text Text � 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: Letters Home Description An account of the resource Getting letters from home was always a highlight of the week for everyone overseas. They wrote home frequently as well as evidenced by the volume of James' letters. Here is a collection of letters and postcards he sent home to his wife Maxine, brother Bill and parents while serving in Africa and Italy. Be sure to look at the letter dated 1943-04-10. Notice how James indicated he censored his own letter and look at the special form he had to use to send it home. Notice on other letters where they are stamped whether they were censored or not. Like most others, James had to be careful not to divulge too much information about where he was. James was killed on September 9, 1943. Be sure to read his last letter home, sent the day before. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Hand-written letter 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 Letter from James in North Africa to his parents, 1943-04-18 Subject The topic of the resource James Dibble. Correspondence. Description An account of the resource Letter from James in North Africa to his parents. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Personal correspondence Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Dibble Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-04-18 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 2022-01-18 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/9/373/Dibble_Text0199.pdf d516c3adf413c96961ba51648b1609e8 PDF Text Text EDDIE RICKENBACKER NORTH AFRICA AND THE “HAT IN THE RING PIN” In April 1943 Eddie Rickenbacker had visited the War Department and received another assignment as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson's Special Consultant. Rickenbacker was to visit Russia to check into the Lend-Lease program then in effect. Lend-Lease was the program, inaugurated in March 1941, by which America became the arsenal of democracy, sending military supplies to all nations fighting the Axis. Rickenbacker's trip took him through North Africa, and as such he planned to visit as many Air Corp groups as possible to help boost morale. Knowing that his old squadron was stationed in the area, before leaving the United States, Rickenbacker had a jeweler in New York make up i insignia pins with the hat-in-the-ring motif and had persuaded p Hap Arnold, head of the Army Air Forces, to approve themit to be worn on their uniforms. On May 14, five command cars pulled into the base at Chateaudun du Rommel, Algeiiria. Jimmy Doolittle, then Commanding Officer of the spped out to introduce Rickenbacker to the Twelfth Air Force, step ’groui ling Rickenbacker threw a big party for the group. Later that eveni,, squa^ squadron in Constantine. There were then some 22 pilots in the 94th Squadron. ! The pilot::s having been trucked in were treated to a bit ig meal consisting of camel steaks with all the trimmings, Folic .owing the cognac and grape juice to wash it all down, Rickenbacker assembled all tl:he= pilots pi: on a small stage. ( General Doolittle called each pilots name name.. Eddie Rickenbaker presented the small "hat-in-the-ring" pin to General Doolittle wh<10 in turn pinned it on the tunic above the pilots wings. Lt. Jim Dibble wrote home to describe the event."We had a big squadron part} rty last night in a nearby town. Eddie Rickenbacker, who used to 1be with the squadron in the last war, threw a party for us. We were all presented with a pin of silver in the form of the squadron insignia, the hat-in-the-ring." � 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: Combat! Description An account of the resource James spent his combat time based out of North Africa and helped clear the way for the eventual invasion of Italy in 1943. He was a member of the 94th Air Squadron, <a href="https://www.1stfg.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">1st Fighter Group</a>, and flew the famous twin-engined P-38. Learn more about the P-38 at: <ul><li><a href="http://www.aviation-history.com/lockheed/p38.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aviation History online Museum</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj_1pKiyOT5AhXUkIkEHWqSCb8QFnoECAMQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Ftechnology%2FP-38&usg=AOvVaw25-9_sOlkuv_UPtZBhV1Ma" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Britannica.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj_1pKiyOT5AhXUkIkEHWqSCb8QFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLockheed_P-38_Lightning&usg=AOvVaw0_UoxVGVbZOtad9vsjWvhW" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wikipedia</a><a href="http://www.aviation-history.com/lockheed/p38.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a></li> </ul> Don't miss the section titled Day of Armageddon recapping the events of August 30, 1943. This air battle over Italy ultimately earned James the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was lucky to survive - many pilots made the ultimate sacrifice. See photos, letters, mission reports and more about James' time spent in combat over Africa and Italy in 1942 and 1943. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed document 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 Account of Eddie Rickenbacker's visit to the 94th Air Squadron in Algeria, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource World War II. 1st Fighter Group. Medals and Citations Description An account of the resource Account of Eddie Rickenbacker's visit to the 94th Air Squadron in Algeria, 1943. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Essay Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jim Dibble Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource unknown Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/13/320/Dibble_Text0125.pdf deafef62bb78b632bd5f2a2626f29774 PDF Text Text � 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: Killed in Action Description An account of the resource Typically pilots rotated home after their 50th mission. James took off for his 49th mission on Septemebr 9, 1943, and never returned. He was shot down on a straffing run near the town of Padula, Italy. Initially there was much confusion amongst the other P-38 pilots, and it was thought James survivied and may have been taken prisoner. Ultimately it was discovered that James had been shot down and then killed by German soldiers. James was ultiamtely brought home and buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Middleville, Michigan. See information on his gravesite at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40312090/james-p-dibble" target="_blank" title="James P. Dibble's Gravesite" rel="noreferrer noopener">FindAGrave.com</a>. See reports, documents and letters around James' missing in action status and then the determination that he was killed in action. Included are letters from the Army to his wife Maxine and parents, newspaper clippings and local memorials. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph of an original telegram 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 Missing in action telegram for James Dibble received by his wife Maxine Subject The topic of the resource James Dibble. MIA/KIA. Description An account of the resource Missing in action telegram for James Dibble received by his wife Maxine. Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Telegram Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource U. S. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James P. Dibble: The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943 Description An account of the resource From Jim Dibble's account titled "The Day of Armegeddon" included in this collection: "Following the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, the missions flown out of North Africa by the 1st Fighter Group pilots in their P-38 Lightnings had a common objective of preparing for the invasion at Salerno, Italy by the United States Fifth Army." A mission on August 25th was highly successful, with a loss of only 8 P-38's. The 1st Fighter Group earned a Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation for their efforts, but the August 30 mission, for which they would earn a second citation, was not so easy. See mission reports, photos, first hand accounts and more information about this infamous air battle known as The Day of Armageddon. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Hand-written letter 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 Notes from Lt. Frank McIntosh clarifying events of August 30, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource World War II. August 30, 1943. Description An account of the resource Notes from Lt. Frank McIntosh clarifying events of August 30, 1943. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Historical account Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lt. Frank McIntosh Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/20/2002 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/10/212/Dibble_Text0154.pdf 57201f20ff5d2a4ea2fcd262ae238b74 PDF Text Text 94TH FIGHTER SQUADRON 1ST FIGHTER GROUP A.P.O. 520 June 10, 1943. DI.r: 1017 " hI h ir gj, I t-> - 12 P-33s, Co.pt. Sutcliffe, Its. Cilliai, ' , nord #4A at PANTIILERIA. Lt. Hammond returned early because of mechanical" failure, • landing at 0305 hours, Capt. Sutcliffe returned early because of mechanical fail ure, landing at 0310 hours. Lt, Jackson was late taking off due to mechanical failure and could not find formation so returned and landed at 0840 hours. Lt. Anderson returned early because of mechanical failure, landing at 0330 hours, Formation flew at 7,500 feet until over the target when they climbed to 3,000 feet and dived to 3,000 fc-d before releasing their bombs. 2 bombs were seen to hit the target and the r. c landed in .the vicinity. Time over t-f„.; ■ hours. Flak: light, intense :and accurate. Weather: to target, heavy overcast abou. half to T ' j . : .,000 feet, from there on and over target, 0 .'."J, Re eneay aircraft seen, After ’ mbing, formation reformed at 3,000 feet, Re..r_inder ; of formation landed at 1050 i.ours. 6 bombs were dropped. Route: Direct to target, .U Lt. Niles flew with the 27th Fighter Squadron on same mission, taking off at gSSwr”- — h””8-Th»£ B-i o » SR&FrfA 27th and 71st Fighter Squadrons,' took off at 0740 hours to dive bomb gun positions B .O’s* £iyn j>u..nAwu pjpuxw; ~ Capv,. ouvCj-u.^e, Lus. bower emu oagW, £>enuz, ;pace^”Brophy, Sokol, Quinn, Cogswell, Whalen, Gilliam, Capt. Stover, Its. Esser, . Newsome, Helms, Froehling, Opdahl, Jackson, Hammond, filler, Niles, Johnson and tg IkV * aj^aflfailurej landing' at 1515 hours. ■' W*feet but dived to 4^000 fee. before dropping bombs. About 16 bombs made , : direct hits on target and the remainder hit around target area. Formation also ’ f straffed while diving. Time over target 1638 hours. One large transport believed 1 SS'A’K.rSZ . I not intense and inaccurate. It is believed-that’there are several flak pbsitions on southern part of island. Weather:, to target, hazy, scattered showers and poor vd: i’.ildty; over taL-jeu, C.dv'U. do eae.j-.- aircraft seen. ._ _cv .. formation reformed at 500 feet. 22 bombs were dropped. Route: direct to target. Formation landed at 1810 hours. ‘ - randoipita; bro.;?:, Capt., Air Co:-v:. Intelligence Cd_ic-r. 3 I y � 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. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed mission report 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 Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 10, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource United States. Air Force. 12th Air Force. 94th Fighter Squadron. Description An account of the resource Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 10, 1943. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Flight Mission report Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Randolph A. Brown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-06 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/11/145/Dibble_Text0066.pdf 697027d2511b43b3645cd49a740e70c9 PDF Text Text � 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: Letters Home Description An account of the resource Getting letters from home was always a highlight of the week for everyone overseas. They wrote home frequently as well as evidenced by the volume of James' letters. Here is a collection of letters and postcards he sent home to his wife Maxine, brother Bill and parents while serving in Africa and Italy. Be sure to look at the letter dated 1943-04-10. Notice how James indicated he censored his own letter and look at the special form he had to use to send it home. Notice on other letters where they are stamped whether they were censored or not. Like most others, James had to be careful not to divulge too much information about where he was. James was killed on September 9, 1943. Be sure to read his last letter home, sent the day before. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Hand-written letter 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 Letter from James in North Africa to his parents, 1943-04-27 Subject The topic of the resource James Dibble. Correspondence. Description An account of the resource Letter from James in North Africa to his parents. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Personal correspondence Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Dibble Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-04-27 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 2022-01-18 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/12/304/Dibble_Text0241.pdf f04e42400d8901d6652a0104933cb095 PDF Text Text �� 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: The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943 Description An account of the resource From Jim Dibble's account titled "The Day of Armegeddon" included in this collection: "Following the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, the missions flown out of North Africa by the 1st Fighter Group pilots in their P-38 Lightnings had a common objective of preparing for the invasion at Salerno, Italy by the United States Fifth Army." A mission on August 25th was highly successful, with a loss of only 8 P-38's. The 1st Fighter Group earned a Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation for their efforts, but the August 30 mission, for which they would earn a second citation, was not so easy. See mission reports, photos, first hand accounts and more information about this infamous air battle known as The Day of Armageddon. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul><li> <ul><li><a href="http://omeka/collections/show/15"></a></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Hand-written document 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 Lt. Frank Mcintosh's account of August 30, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource World War II. August 30, 1943. Description An account of the resource Lt. Frank Mcintosh's account of August 30, 1943. Written in the 1970's or 1980's. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Historical account Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lt. Frank McIntosh Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970's - 1980's Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022 https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/10/213/Dibble_Text0155.pdf dbd7a20e08df0483e26f8db5e0d1f84f PDF Text Text r 94TH FIGHTER SQUADRON 1ST FIGHTER GROUP A.P.O.- 520 I j- June 11, 1913. DIV- HAIIIJG KI33I0N - 14 I’-38s, Capt. Stover, Lts. Bower, Jacks 0.;, R, h H.- . a,,. . - ’■ ■ E, :- .took off at 1110..hours to patrol and dive bomb PANTELLERIA-. Formation flew at between 6,000 and 9,000 feet. Formation was ordered to jettisons bombs as 60 enemy fighter were coming in. Formation saw bombs drop around our invasion ^barges butJ could not see enemy aircraft. The enemy made one direct hit on one of our larger boats. Formation over target from 1235 hours to 1440 hours, . Weather: x ..... to overcast at tar9,001 feet with No flak encountered. and over rget. Formation landed at 1520 hours. 'showers, Route: direct to tarf 10 flew with the 27th Fighter Squadron. e,ch ear Its. Opdahl an.' Nibble wh< th (instantaneous and .45 fuses.). It, QpdaiJ. Look off at riel 1 x 1000 lb. 1015 but returned e- •ly because of mechanical failure, landing at U10 hours, • Im. little took of.. it 1045 T_ hours — to patrol and dive bomb PANT-Il Patroled F.-.NP/jLIEitLA for I3 . .urs. Porn rmation sighted 60 Fw,190s dive bombing landing barges and -Ships so formation1 jettisoned bombs and dispersed these enemy air, craft. It. Dibble landed Tlmixs to refuel reiuej at 1415 hours, took off at nded at TUNIS . 1 weather at 1645 hours, took ---------- 1740 hours.‘ ’ '' NOTE: Lt, Cronin who was previously ?reported as missing had landed at ALGIERS 1 \’V because of mechanical failure at 13255 hours and returned to base today. - " ^,12. W. . ESCORT MISSION - J3 R-38b^ Its. Froehling,Niles, Whalen, Helms, Stepban, Br<?phy, Opdahl,Lentz, Anderson, Brown, Gilliam and Hammond, together. = formations fr.cm the 2?th and 71st Fighter Squadrons, took off at 0840 hours; to escort 36 B-l?s over .Castelvetrano A/b, Sicily, B-17s going over-target at' ■ p*--’-.... . 24,000 feet, P“r35f at 25,000 feet at 1105 hours. Bur formation made a sweep over, Er A ..V-^target before B<7s made bomb znin. Bombing: very ..accurate;.! large fire with ■’ Jarge column of black smoke on k/D. No flak encountered. 2 E/A seen below bomber F' ' ‘£t 15*000 feet just west Of the target going east but did not attack formation,!? p ’ leather: to target, 4/10ths clouds at 6,000 feet; over tarpet, hi~?. overcast at? k. 30,000 feet. Lt, Stephan returned early because of mechanic-1 1 allure, landi.\ K; at 0900 hours, Lt, Brophy, after dropping belly tanks near target, returned be. cause of mechanical failure, landing at 1220 hours, Lt. Brown, landed at SolimAnW ■k ’ ht 1200 hours to,ref uel, took off at 1300 hours and landed here at 1400 hours, £ g’ Route: to CAPEiBON -irectly east.thence north to target. Remainder of formation* landed at 1250 hr •; > ’ RANDOLPH I � 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. Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. Dibble: World War II P-38 Fighter Pilot</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/6">His Early Life</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/7">High School into the Army Air Corps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/8">Flight Training</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/17">We Got Married!</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/9">Combat!</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/10">Mission Reports</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/11">Letters Home</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/16">Flying with Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/12">The Day of Armageddon - August 30, 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/13">Killed in Action</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/14">The Search for Answers</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/15">The Monument in Padula, Italy</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed mission report 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 Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 11 and June 12, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource United States. Air Force. 12th Air Force. 94th Fighter Squadron. Description An account of the resource Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 11 and June 12, 1943. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Flight Mission report Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Randolph A. Brown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-06 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Hastings Public Library Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jim Dibble Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 1/18/2022