Eyewitness statement, page 19: TORRES, CARMELO A · 10 May 1944
Shermanto STANFIELD
AFPPA-12
CAPT: AIRLORPS, - OPERATIONS OFFICER
CASUALTY QUEST IONNAIRE
1.
Your name TORRES, CARMELO A Rank S. 5.1syr. Serial No. 32721504
15thAir
?. Organization
485Banb FORCE cap. 815thBoou Gn Commander ** Do Rank /
San CO XEARDON Rank MAYOR
(full namel
3. What 1944
did you go down? DONOT ANOWFOII
(fhll name)
year
month MAY
day 19
4.
What was the mission, (12thDamo TARDET target IN Hurried
visa
time, 11.104501120-N67 SURE, altitude, 25,000 FT
route scheduled DONOT
Remember
,route flown Do NOT Remember.
5. when
Where were foll you left formation? Do AUT know. Vear TARGET
6.
Did you bail out? YES
e7.
Did other members ? YES. EXCEPT ht. SeRANTON
of crew bail out
AND S/SPI STENART, who NONE oF USGIAL OUT. To OUR
KNOWLEDGE THEY Did, NOT BAIL OUT.
8.
Tell all you know about when, where, how each person in your aircraft for whom no
indiviqual questionnaire is attached bailed out. A crew list is attached. Please
give facts. If you don't know, say: "No Knowledge".
I Did NOT SEE ANYONE DAIL OUT EXCEPT 5/sq
THE Rest DAD Baf put STARK TheoughThE hatched The TAIL
REDENNELL. DESCRIBED BElow in jussion 12 HOWEVER
9. Where did your aircraft strike the ground? NEVER STRUCK. BOUND Blew
AND ThE Rest through THE NOSE hATY AND BOMERY
10. What members of your crew were in the aircraft when it struck the ground? (Shquld
up IN AiR.
cross check with 8 above and individual questionnaires) When IT Blew up
IN MID- AIR, HTD IT is BELIEVED, AS NO ONE SAW Them BALL OUT
THAT AND s/ STEWART were STILL is The HANE.
11. Where were they in aircraft? hr. SCRANTON WAS whis PILOT 5 SeAT.
12.
What was their condition? hr. SCRANTON TO MY KNOWLEdGE seem hurt STEWARY
5/747. STEWANT WAS TRYING To open The WAIST DOOR
13. When, where, and in what condition thins did you A6 last See any members not already des-
was JUST EXCITED hurt AS WERE ALL of us I 40 NOT
n
cribed above? The ONLY ONE ELSE I SAW WAS
5/94/20 Joseph P. O'DONWELL whom I SAW Dashed TONARDS
the DOMBAY AND jain out I FellowEd him out
ThE SAME way NOT Looking BALK To SEE IF STEWART
WAS Following ME Too, IDDNOT THINK be WAS.
O'Donnell Landed in the mts.
ODONNELL pages The 40WeR BALL GUNNeR None OF The ire Seemed
RURT.
14.
Please give any similar information on personnel of any other crew of which you
have knowledge. Indicate source of information.
(Any additional information may be written on the back)
6-3862,AF
AFPPA-12
CAPT: AIRLORPS, - OPERATIONS OFFICER
CASUALTY QUEST IONNAIRE
1.
Your name TORRES, CARMELO A Rank S. 5.1syr. Serial No. 32721504
15thAir
?. Organization
485Banb FORCE cap. 815thBoou Gn Commander ** Do Rank /
San CO XEARDON Rank MAYOR
(full namel
3. What 1944
did you go down? DONOT ANOWFOII
(fhll name)
year
month MAY
day 19
4.
What was the mission, (12thDamo TARDET target IN Hurried
visa
time, 11.104501120-N67 SURE, altitude, 25,000 FT
route scheduled DONOT
Remember
,route flown Do NOT Remember.
5. when
Where were foll you left formation? Do AUT know. Vear TARGET
6.
Did you bail out? YES
e7.
Did other members ? YES. EXCEPT ht. SeRANTON
of crew bail out
AND S/SPI STENART, who NONE oF USGIAL OUT. To OUR
KNOWLEDGE THEY Did, NOT BAIL OUT.
8.
Tell all you know about when, where, how each person in your aircraft for whom no
indiviqual questionnaire is attached bailed out. A crew list is attached. Please
give facts. If you don't know, say: "No Knowledge".
I Did NOT SEE ANYONE DAIL OUT EXCEPT 5/sq
THE Rest DAD Baf put STARK TheoughThE hatched The TAIL
REDENNELL. DESCRIBED BElow in jussion 12 HOWEVER
9. Where did your aircraft strike the ground? NEVER STRUCK. BOUND Blew
AND ThE Rest through THE NOSE hATY AND BOMERY
10. What members of your crew were in the aircraft when it struck the ground? (Shquld
up IN AiR.
cross check with 8 above and individual questionnaires) When IT Blew up
IN MID- AIR, HTD IT is BELIEVED, AS NO ONE SAW Them BALL OUT
THAT AND s/ STEWART were STILL is The HANE.
11. Where were they in aircraft? hr. SCRANTON WAS whis PILOT 5 SeAT.
12.
What was their condition? hr. SCRANTON TO MY KNOWLEdGE seem hurt STEWARY
5/747. STEWANT WAS TRYING To open The WAIST DOOR
13. When, where, and in what condition thins did you A6 last See any members not already des-
was JUST EXCITED hurt AS WERE ALL of us I 40 NOT
n
cribed above? The ONLY ONE ELSE I SAW WAS
5/94/20 Joseph P. O'DONWELL whom I SAW Dashed TONARDS
the DOMBAY AND jain out I FellowEd him out
ThE SAME way NOT Looking BALK To SEE IF STEWART
WAS Following ME Too, IDDNOT THINK be WAS.
O'Donnell Landed in the mts.
ODONNELL pages The 40WeR BALL GUNNeR None OF The ire Seemed
RURT.
14.
Please give any similar information on personnel of any other crew of which you
have knowledge. Indicate source of information.
(Any additional information may be written on the back)
6-3862,AF
National Archives, MACR 4846, page 19 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.