B29-#44-69871 crash time April 16, 1945 Crash position Chiba Kimitsu County Obitsu-mura Sueyoshi (present Sueyoshi, Kimitsu-city, Chiba-pref) Affiliation 314th bombing team 19th BG of 20th air force 30 SQ Attack target Kawasaki city area Cause of crash ? Crew Arrangement inside the plane Name Class Recognition number Life and death Pilot SCHEFILD and John L.Jr. First lieutenant 0-742215 X Copilot BAKER, James E. Second lieutenant 0-831082 X Bombing hand CURRIOR and Warren H. First lieutenant 0-1039445 X Nav. BURTHOLOMOW and Donald E. Second lieutenant 0-2060445 X Radio RANSLER and Warren H. Second lieutenant 0-2068119 Engineer HARTRICH, Robert E. Second grade staff sergeant 14054450 X Central firearms control KRONICK and Archer S. Staff sergeant 17131456 X Radar SCOLARD and AnthonyF. Second grade staff sergeant 16078862 XGunner VOGOLA and Francis J. Staff sergeant 42031485 X Gunner NARO, Bortram L. Staff sergeant 33898131 XGunner YOUNGO, Hohry L. Staff sergeant 42031151 X First bombing to the Kawasaki city area. Participation and 12 sets were lost for 219 sets. Second Lieutenant BURTHOLOMOW, Staff Sergeant KRONICK, a SCOLARD 2 grade staff sergeant, Staff Sergeant VOGOLA, and Staff Sergeant YOUNGO -- the circumference of the crash spot -- the Obitsu-mura civil defense unit and the police -- a restraint and the Tokyo military prison via the eastern part military police -- imprisonment -- it died in the flames on May 25. Second Lieutenant RANSLER continued flight, he was accommodated in the Tokyo prisoner-of-war-camp Ofuna concentration camp by the navy garrison on the following day, a restraint and May 5, on May 4, and went back after the war

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Tetsuya,
I did not find a reference for Currior or Burtholomow as bombardiers.  I did find Ransler as a graduate of Midland, TX class MI 44-11.  Can you recheck your data, so we can verify our accuracy?
 
Thanks!
Dave

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Dear Dave

Their name is recorded on record of GHQ left behind to Japan.

Thanks.
TETSUYA

Tetsuya, you are referring to the Schofield crew. 2Lt Ransler was the only survivor. What else have you been able to discover about this crew? 

Tetsuya and others,
 
To tweak the information posted a little about the crew listing:
 
1st Lt John L. SCHOFIELD     AC                        0-742215
2nd Lt. James E. BAKER          P                         0-831082
2nd Lt. Donald L. BARTHOLOMEW*   Nav           0-2060454
1st Lt.  Joseph G. CURRIER    B                          0-1039445
2nd Lt. Warren H. RANSLER**  Radar                0-2068119
M/Sgt  Robert E. HARTRICH    Flt Eng                 14054450
S/Sgt  Anthony SCOLARO*   Radio                     16078862
Sgt.  Archer S. KRONICK  CFC                             42121434
Sgt.  Francis J. VOGOLA   RG                               42031485
Sgt.  Bertram L. WARE  LG                                  33898131 
Sgt.  Henry L. YOUNGE*  TG                                42031151 
 
* Prisoners at Tokyo Kempei Tai Headquarters and transferred to the
Tokyo Military Prison on 9 May and were killed during the Massacre on
25-26 May 1945.  SCOLARO had evaded capture for several days after
their B-29 went down.
** RANSLER  evaded capture until 4May and was held at smaller satellite
Kempei prison. He was transferred to Tokyo Kempei Tai Headquarters
on 26 May. He was a cellmate of Fiske HANLEY II (author of "Accused
American War Criminal") from the 26th until they both were shipped
to (POW) Camp Omori on the morning of 15 August, then liberated on
29 August 1945. Camp Omori was just a few miles from Headquarters,
located in Tokyo Bay on reclaimed land.
 
SCOLARO had also been a cellmate of HANLEY's, at Kempei Tai Hdqts.,
until transfer to Tokyo Military Prison of 9 May. He was one of the 62-
65 POWs taken from Headquarters to the prison.
 
The rest of the crew were KIA
 
Sources:
19th BG History and Roster published Sept 1945
19th BG materials from Maxwell AFB (official records)
Fiske Hanley's book, which includes the affidavits from the POWs by the
Special Prosecutor of the Kempei Tai war criminals
 
My interest in this crew, as well as the circumstances involved at the
POW camp(s) is because my brother, 1st Lt Robert McDONALD, AC, and his crew, along with an observer, were also lost on this same mission. The
SCHOFIELD crew was with the 30th BS and my brother was attached to
the 93rd BS--both of the 19th BG.
 
Nancy Reynolds

Nancy Reynolds