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5 July 1944
Object Number - UPL 33647 - "A large explosion erupts in the rail marshalling yards at Biziers, France 100 miles west of Marseilles on the Mediterranean, 5 July 44. 8th USAAF...
Description
Bombed marshaling yards near Toulon while flying from Italy back to England.
Mission Details
BEZIERS (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group, 452nd Bomb Group Shuttle groups returning from Italy. 70 B-17s on shuttle mission (UK-USSR-Italy-UK) attack a marshalling yard at Beziers, France. They are joined by B-24s from the 15th AF. 42 P-51s return to the UK with the bombers, 11 remain in Italy 10 of which return to the UK the next day and the last one several days later. They escort the bombers.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 183 T
Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 93rd Bomb Group, 389th Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group, 459th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 122.50
EINDHOVEN (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 37.7 T
Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 106 T
GILZE-RIJEN (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 303rd Bomb Group, 379th Bomb Group
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 105 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 67.50
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 9 T
Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 103.5 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 61.5 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 2 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 55.5 T
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33429920
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 18th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-758667
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33670081
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Berlin Bessie
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Go Getter
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Able Mabel
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Irene's Folly
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Good Pickin
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Lee Cunningham, 8th Air Force missions research database / Stan Bishop's 'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces', the Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces and the work of Roger Freeman including the 'Mighty Eighth War Diary'.