Enoch Melvin Porter Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOURDetails added. MACR number changed to 6465. - Kickapoo
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
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Euroclydon The Storm
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Killed in action |
1 August 1943 | ||
Born |
Montana | ||
Buried |
Revisions
Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity.
ABMC MACR 6465 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia