https://barrycountyhistoryportal.org/files/original/10/236/Dibble_Text0177.pdf af851d963a4e3162fafdb8589f1935a7 PDF Text Text 94TH FIGHTER SQUADRON 1ST FIGHTER GROUP ‘ A.P.O. 520 August 5, 19A3. Brophy and Parlett took off at O63O hours and ESCORT MISSION - 2 P-38's, Its. Br< >. They took off from lAMARSA at 1000 hours to- . -.landed at UdARSA at 0?00 hours. . gether with a B-25 which they escorted to CASSIBUE, SICHZ9 -landing there at 1145 hours. They took off at 1500 hours with the B-25, but Lt. Parlett encoun1E, landing there at 1530 hours, tered engine trouble and returned to CASSIBUEi Lt, Brophy escorted the b-25 back to LAMARSA and both landed at 1645 hours. Lt. Brophy then took off alone at 1715 hours and landed back at base at 1730 hours. Lt. Parlett together with 2 P-38's fran the 71st fighter Squadron and a B-17 took off fran CASSIBUE at 1615 hours and flew to gAPE BON where the-R-17 was last seen. Together with the 2 P-3C's frcu the 71e£. -Fighter squadron he returned to base, landing at 1800 hours. Weather: base t 0 LAMARSA, hazy with 7/10's clouds; IAMARSA to CASSIBUE, 9/10's overcast e.id a ) ft. ceiling; back to base, CAVU. BOBIR ESCORT MISSION - 14 P”3<’: t, Lts. Jac>..< 1, Thiessen, Grieshaber, Cpam, Dibble, Lee, Kipper, Terry, Qodahl, Vrilakas, acotjsen, 'Wilson, Herr and Allan took off at 0820 hours together with foraattom; lh*am the 27th and 71et Fighter Squadrons to escort 72 B-17's to MESSUIA, /HAS-. ( The formation randegvoused •; ■ -s sss '■ ' ... ? . . . ■ •carpet; e:i rente to base, ri“ht turn through Central SICILY, emerging North of MARSALA, thence to case, xne B-17‘s ana r-j>6's were over Lae^target av LOvO 10Q5 hours, the B-17’s flying at 25,000 feet; the P-38’a flying at 26,000 feet. Bombing; 12 Bombers covered the docks very well. One:string of bombs landed in the .-water off the coast. Flak:', inaccurate as to altitude, heavy,-mdiurn inten- z ’ sity, but might have-been accurate as to bombers. Flakwsl^'Wncairtered in: .ah-»P» chape fram "MESSINA to MOUNT. ETNA. Weather; ;OTer Mci^y 6/lO’s cloudo from 12,000 to 15,000 feetj over target, GABU. Sightings: M 1000 hours,’ 2 barges or Siebel Ferries, were observed inthe Straits of MESSINA iron 26,000 -feet. At‘0950 hours 3 boats with wide wake were observed heading 60 degrees <’ -X between SICILY and LIPARI from 25,000 feet. At 1005 hours 1 barge was seen g . ■ MESSINA where the belly tanks were dropped. "Maurice" reports he called "May DayUp He was last fixed 70 miles out at Sea, North cf BONE. Lt. Jackson returned early * and landed at 0830 hours because of radio trouble, It. Dibble leading the for­ mation. The remainder of the formation returned and landed at 1218 hours. - | k Intelligence Officer. �94TH F ENTER SQUADRON 1ST FEH1ER GROUP . A.P.O. 520 August 5, 1943 (Continued) SEARCH MISSION - 11 P-38’s, Its. Jackson, Pettus, Hanton, Sias, Niles, Phillips, Grieshaber,, Schulze, Cogswell, Jacobsen and Cram took off at 1510 hours to search for It. Eerr who was reported'in previous mission as missing. Route: to BONE? thence a course of 355 degrees for 20 minutes; thence flying rectangular positions from point designated by radio from "MAY DAY" at position 38 degrees 12 minutes North, 7 dggrees 20 minutes East. They searched the area for 2j hours but saw only an oil slick at above position.- No other sightings. Weather: to and frcm target, slight haze. The formation returned and landed at 1805 hours. r r August 6, 1943. . _ 1 ' ESCORT MISSION - On August 5, 1943, Ite. Hagenback and Schult's took off at BOO liours on an escort mission and landed ■<. i IAMARSA at 1130 hours, —Lt. Schulze encountered hydraulic failure while lan ing at IAMARSA. He took off fron IAMARSA at 1135 hours and. landed here at 1200 hours to pick up _a different r plane. He .to ok off again at 1230 hours and flew back to IAMARSA but did not land. He contacted the ground by radio and learned that the famati® had already taken . ' off on ths mission. It. Schulze returned to base landing at 1300 hours. It. Hagenback reported that he didn’t leave IAMARSA until 1400 hours at- which time .. ..u. topk off vdih 1 v.lic.. he Queried. io 1A1LE1X, S1J11Y, both at, 1515 hours. On August 6, 1943, It® Hagenback took off alone frcm PALERMO at . 1600 hours, returned and landed back st base at 1715 hours. Weather: to and fjxsn SICILY $nd back to base, very hazy. "7 " MISSION - 2 P-38»s, its. Opdahl and Wilson took off at 0620 hours,, tofoimation rendezvoused with the PBY over SIDI AHMED AIRDROME, BTZERTC at 0635 1 hazy with scattered clouds at 1500 - 2000 feet; to base,'hazy with scattered clouds. At 1000 hours 1 dinghy containing approximately 7 men was sighted from 1000 feet. The PBY landed and picked up these men. Halfway back to base at 1015 hours the P-38’.s left the PBY and returned here, landing at 1145 hours. Rill; 01H A. Bau, Captain, Air Corps, Intelligence Officer. t 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.<br /><br />Jump to other sections of the collection: <ul><li><a href="https://www.barrycountyhistoryportal.org/collections/show/5">James P. 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