Robert Boudon
Military | Captain | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
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Weldon Theis Martz
Military
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Robert G. Boudon Crew 95th BG - 334th BS This crew completed a 30 mission tour Standing Left to Right: Lawrence Kaplan (WG), Weldon T. Martz (FE), R. M. Haupt (RO), Floyd M. Hammond (BTG), Athol A. Strickland (TG), Kneeling Left to Right: Robert G. Boudon (P), John W. Dugan (B), Edward J. Felski (CP) Haupt appears to have not flown any missions with this crew. He was replaced by Keith J. Hausman Dugan is listed as John W. Dugan on the 95th BG website Kaplan is listed as Lawrence Kaplan on the 95th BG website Hammond is listed as Floyd M. Hammond on the 95th BG website Martz is listed as Weldon T. Martz on the 95th BG website Strickland is listed as Athol A. Strickland on the 95th BG website
Service
People
Units served with
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95th Bomb Group
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August... -
334th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-102447 'El's Belles'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 4/3/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Dow Fd 4/4/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-A] Horham 6/4/44; with L.J. Price, force landed 4/8/44 sal; with M.S. Roy force landed Framlingham AFB 25/12/44; with H. Rivet force landed France 20/2/45; with J.E.... -
42-102455 'Lucky Lady' 'Screaming Eagle'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 4/3/44; Gt Falls 6/3/44; Cheyenne 4/4/44; Hunter 18/4/44; Grenier 5/5/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-Z] Horham 8/5/44 LUCKY LADY; with H.E. Hansen force landed B-58 Melsbroek, Bel 6/2/45; with G.T. Purdy force landed A-96 Toul-Ochey,... -
42-102951
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/44; Kearney 6/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-Q] Horham 30/5/44; with A.E. McCulley 25/8/44 wia-b Lt Bill Kehoe, Waist gunner: Larry Roberts; with W.C. Bramlett force landed RAF Woodbridge 25/12/44; with R.W.... -
42-107201 'Worry Bird'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; Kearney 31/3/44; Dow Fd 6/7/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-J] Horham 8/4/44; 121m, Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 23/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA)... -
42-31514
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 15/11/43; Gr Island 3/12/43; Presque Is 9/12/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-K] Horham 17/12/43; 335BS [OE-K];Tail gunner: Jim Gussett (Killed in Action) 18/3/44; (49m), Missing in Action Zeitz 16/8/44 with Don Severson, Co-pilot: Harry... -
42-31589 'Patty Ann'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 25/11/43; Gt Falls 1/12/43; Kearney 17/12/43; Romulus 6/1/44; Grenier 9/1/44; Presque Is 12/1/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-O] Horham 23/1/44; 72m, Missing in Action Zeitz 16/8/44 with Lou Price, Radio Operator: Bill Dixon, Ball turret... -
42-37879 'Wrinkled Belly Baby'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 29/9/43; Gr Island 22/10/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [BG-U] Horham 11/11/43; with W.P. Kelley force landed Attlebridge afb, Suffolk, 11/12/43; two days later the u/c would not extend and force landed at Honington AFB with H. M. Powers, Co... -
42-97215
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 8/2/44; Kearney 24/2/44; Presque Is 12/3/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [BG-J] Horham 12/3/44; on practice mission 20/11/44 with Stew Reed, Co-pilot: Harold Rensch, Navigator: Tony Marnik, Radio Operator: Bill Raab, Flight engineer/top... -
43-38255 'Poof Proof'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 13/7/44; Hunter 22/7/44; Dow Fd 4/8/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-A] Horham 5/8/44; 334BS [BG-C]; with R.G. Boudon force landed Framlingham afb 18/10/44; caught fire en route Hamm 28/10/44 with G.L. Braund; ret safely, 9RTD Missing Air...
Missions
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460
8 July 1944
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466
11 July 1944
More than 1000 planes bombed Munich. Flak cut our control cables to elevators and rudder. Flew back by wing trim tabs. Shippy spliced cables before landing. Nine hour ride. Flak hit Sgt Rollinger's oxygen mask and injured his nose and eyes. -
478
17 July 1944
Took off at suppertime and missed the target by at least 40 miles. Flak was extremely close. Minor damage. -
481
18 July 1944
Flew an easy one over Denmark to Germany. Only had one hours sleep between yesterday and today. -
8th Air Force 482
19 July 1944
Schweinfurt, Germany ball bearing plant was the target. Hit by flak and fell behind formation at 8:45 am above Aachen, Germany and crashed at Haren, Belgium at 10:06 am in the air district. -
484
20 July 1944
A rough one. Bombed an oil refinery near Leipzeig. Flak put several holes in the plane; ine in number 3 gas tank. Came back on 3 engines. -
492
24 July 1944
Bombed enemy troop concentrations and thus assisted the Allied breakthrough at St. Lo. About 1500 planes of US went to St. Lo in Cherbourg. We came back with our bombs. Couldn't find the target. -
494
25 July 1944
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501
28 July 1944
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510
2 August 1944
Associated Place
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Horham
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Rockingham County, VA | 5 September 1923 |
| Lived in | Timberville, VA | 1941 |
| Enlisted | Charlottesville, VA | 17 February 1943 |
| 95th BG Combat Tour | Horham Airfield, UK | 8 July 1944 – 18 October 1944 |
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Completed a 30 combat mission tour |
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| Died | Timberville, PA | 23 February 2001 |
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Weldon Theis Martz , 77, Timberville, died Friday, Feb. 23, 2001, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg. Mr. Martz was born Sept. 5, 1923, in Timberville, and was the son of the late John and Anna Theis Martz . He was a warehouse clerk for Rockingham Poultry and a refrigeration mechanic for Byrd-Fredrickson. He was a member of the Timberville Church of the Brethren and an Army-Air Force veteran of World War II. On March 2, 1946, he married the former Alma Hupp, who survives. He is also survived by two sisters, Irene Matthews, Harrisonburg, and Dwen Branner, Broadway. |
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| Buried | Harrisonburg, VA | 26 February 2001 |
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Rest Haven Memorial Gardens |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 17 August 2020 16:55:31 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename, firstname, service number, highest rank, role, events, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=10569065... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:28:48 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php |
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