The Man Behind the Name
S/Sgt. Eugene W. Engdahl served as waist gunner with the 330th Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group. On August 1, 1943, he was one of only three crew members to bail out successfully from his stricken aircraft during the low-level raid on the Ploesti oil fields in Romania.
Engdahl bailed out at approximately 2,000 feet over Bulgaria and his parachute opened successfully. Fellow crew member S/Sgt. Koen Jr. reported him as uninjured after landing, and S/Sgt. Murray confirmed seeing Engdahl alive on the ground after the bailout.
Engdahl is associated with E&E Report No. 2445, confirming that he successfully evaded and returned to Allied control. His name was occasionally rendered as 'Engdanl' in OCR transcriptions of period questionnaires.
Service record.
Missions flown.
The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.