MARINE SCOUT BOMBING SQUADRON 231 (VMSB-231)

NEW! - full squadron photo taken on April 17, 1943: click HERE
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(courtesy Erik Hewitt)

Pilots (arrival date, remarks)

Maj LR Smith (8/30, Bvac 9/19)
Capt EA Glidden, Jr. (8/30, Evac 10/16)
Capt R Iden (8/30, Ditched out of gas & drowned 9/20)
Capt B Prosser (8/30, Evac 9/19)
2/Lt RJ Bear (8/30, Evac 10/11)
2/Lt HV Cook (8/30, Evac 10/15)
2/Lt YW Kaufman (8/30, Killed in crash while on search 9/14)
2/Lt OD Johnson (8/30, KIA 9/13)
2/Lt DL Leslie (8/30, Shot down 9/28. Rescued by coast-watchers, returned 11/3)
2/Lt GB Loeffel (8/30, Evac 10/16)
2/Lt VG Rubincam (8/30, Evac 10/13)
2/Lt AM Smith (8/30, Evac 10/7)
2/Lt RW Vaupel (8/30, WIA 10/7, evac 10/9)
2/Lt JW Weintraub (8/30, Killed during bombardment of 9/12)
2/Lt JW Zuber (8/30, Evac 10/13)
S. Sgt LF Blass (8/30, Evac 10/16)
S. Sgt WW Witherspoon (8/30, Evac 10/16)


Aircrewmen *

Pvt BJ Arnold (Killed in crash while on search 9/14)
Pfc VS Byrd
Pfc TA Costello
S. Sgt CT Hickman
Sgt MT Johnston
Sgt JB McDougall
Pfc RT Ramsay
Pfc WJ Reid
Corp DL Rhodes
Corp RS Russell
Sgt TL Sidebottom (Wounded & Evac 9/12)
Pfc HE Smith
Pfc JB Strange
Pfc FW Thiessen
Pfc HB Thomas (KIA 9/13)
Pfc WH Tubbs
Pfc WH Van Kirk
Pfc DM Winters

* All aircrewmen arrived 8/30. Dates evacuated not available.

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