1st Lt. Enoch Marvin Porter Jr.

BIRTH : 2 Jul 1921 - Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA

DEATH : 1 Aug 1943 - Age 22

BURIAL : Florence American Cemetery and Memorial Florence, Città

Metropolitana di Firenze, Toscana, Italy



PLOT - Tablets of the Missing :

MEMORIAL I.D. 55903258 · View Source

In the U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 :

Birth Place : Great Falls, Montana, USA

Birth Date : 2 Jul 1921

Residence Place : Missoula, Missoula, Montana, USA

Registration Date: 16 Feb 1942









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Pilot : 1st Lt. Enoch M. Porter Jr. - MIA - KIA

Squadron : 328TH BOMB SQUADRON - 93rd BOMB GROUP

Hometown : Great Falls, Mont.

Service : O-734132

Awards : Distinguished Flying Cross - Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters - Purple

Heart

Target : Concordia-Vega refineries at Ploesti, Romania

Missing Air Crew Report Details :

Date Lost : 1 AUG 43

Serial Number : 42-40612

Aircraft Model : B-24D

Aircraft Letter : K

Aircraft Name : Euroclydon The Storm

Crash Location : Crashed near the target, the Concordia Vega Refineries Crew : 11 Crew



Lt. Enoch Porter was the pilot in command of the B-24D, Euroclydon The Storm, on Operation Tidal Wave, the large bombing mission to destroy the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. He was Killed in Action KIA) on the Ploesti mission while on temporary detachment (TDY) to the 9th Air Force for that mission. His plane on the mission, the B-24D, named, Euroclydon The Storm, 42-40612, took two direct flak hits on it's approach to the target, setting it's two extra gasoline tanks in it's bomb bay, on fire. Lt. Porter and his copilot immediately jettisoned it's bomb load and tried to climb to 300 feet to give their crew enough altitude to safely bail out. Three of them did so, and were captured (POW). But Lt. Porter and the rest of his crew could not get out and were Killed In Action (KIA) in the flaming crash of their B-24D, Euroclydon The Storm. 11 KIA. 3 POW. 1 Aug 1943. MACR 332



The two pilots and the crewmen who died in the crash were all posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross - the Air Medal - and the Purple Heart Medal, as were Euroclydon's three crewmen who survived the mission in captivity.



Euroclydon The Storm's Crew :

1st Lt. Enoch M. Porter, Jr. - Pilot

1st Lt. Raymond P. Warner - Navigator

1st Lt. Howard Dickson - Copilot

Flight Officer - Joe E. Boswell - Gunnery Trainer/ Volunteer Gunner

1st Lt. Jesse D. "Red" Franks, Jr - Bombardier

2nd Lt. John F. Minogue - Radio Operator

TSgt. Frank C. Ferrell - Gunner

TSgt Bernard R. Lucas - Gunner

SSgt. Earl L. Frost - Gunner