Created: 07/30/2003

Photos and details courtesy of Mr. Russell Davis and Mr. Gabriel Gratkowski

8/44 - 11/44 RTU, Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas
11/44 - 12/44 Lincoln AAF, NE - Camp Kilmer, NJ
12/07/44 - 12/14/44  In Transit, by ship Ile de France
12/14/44 - 07/45 710th Squadron, Rattlesden, UK
Missions flown: 30
Assigned Aircraft: 42-97819 - destroyed in 2/21/45 hardstand accident
44-8502 - "Always Available"
Standing, L-R: T/Sgt. Cliff Conine, ENG; T/Sgt. Fred Bubeck, ROG; S/Sgt. Donald Olsen, BTG; S/Sgt. Gabriel Gratkowski, WG/TG; S/Sgt. Irvin Crone, TG
Kneeling, L-R:  Lt. Stanley White, P; Lt. Alan Kronschnabel, CP; Lt. Russell Davis, N; T/Sgt. Ronnal Tobey, Armorer/Togglier
More photos below

Combat Missions

  No. DATE TARGET AIRCRAFT COMMENTS
1 193 1/2/1945 ST. WENDEL 44-6595 (Slick Chick) Wing fire, bailed out over Verdun, France.  All returned safely
2 204 1/20/1945 HEILBRONN 43-39054 (Jersey Bounce)  
3   205 1/21/1945 MANNHEIM 43-39054 (Jersey Bounce)  
4   208 2/3/1945 BERLIN 43-38905  
5   209 2/6/1945 CHEMNITZ 42-97819  
6   211 2/14/1945 WESEL 42-97819  
7   212 2/15/1945 COTTBUS 42-97819  
8   214 2/16/1945 WESEL 42-97819  
9   215 2/20/1945 NURNBERG 42-97819  
10   217 2/23/1945 CRAILSHEIM 44-8502 (Always Available)  A/C 42-97819 was one of six aircraft destroyed in the 
 hardstand explosion on 21 February 1945
11   222 3/1/1945 ULM 44-8502 (Always Available)  
12   223 3/2/1945 DRESDEN 44-8502 (Always Available)  
13   224 3/3/1945 BRUNSWICK 44-8502 (Always Available)  
14   226 3/8/1945 FRANKFURT 44-8502 (Always Available)  
15   227 3/9/1945 FRANKFURT 44-8502 (Always Available)  
16   232 3/15/1945 ORANIENBURG 44-8502 (Always Available)  
17   233 3/17/1945 RUHLAND 44-8502 (Always Available)  Mid-air collision (wx), elevator damaged, returned safely to base
18   235 3/19/1945 ZWICKAU 43-39194  
19   237 3/21/1945 WILHELMSHAVEN 44-8502 (Always Available)  
20   238 3/22/1945 ESSEN 44-8502 (Always Available)  
21   242 3/30/1945 HAMBURG 44-8502 (Always Available)  
22   244 4/3/1945 KIEL 44-8502 (Always Available)  
23   245 4/4/1945 KIEL 44-8502 (Always Available)  
24   248 4/8/1945 PLAUEN 44-8502 (Always Available)  
25   249 4/9/1945 NEWBURG A/F 44-8502 (Always Available)  
26   250 4/10/1945 BRANDENBURG 44-8502 (Always Available)  
27   251 4/11/1945 INGLOSTADT 44-8502 (Always Available)  
28   252 4/14/1945 ROYAN AREA 44-8502 (Always Available)  On 15 April, Lt. Kronschnabel flew his first mission as 1st Pilot
 with a new crew.
29   257 4/20/1945 NEURUPPIN 44-8502 (Always Available)  
30   258 4/21/1945 INGLOSTADT 44-8502 (Always Available)  

 

L-R: 
Gabriel Gratkowski 
Cliff Conine
Donald Olsen
Irvin Crone
Fred Bubeck
Ronnal Tobey

at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas, Fall 1944

Lts. White and Kronschnabel 
 

Lt. Stanley White
Sgt. Cliff Conine
Lt. Russell Davis
Lt. Al Kronschnabel

At Rattlesden, 1945

  
 

 


Crew reunion, August 1994, Denver
L-R: Russell Davis, Fred Bubeck, Ronnal Tobey, Al Kronschnabel, 
Gabriel Gratkowski, Stanley White, Donald Olsen


August 1994
Russell Davis and Cliff Conine

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