549
13 August 1944
Object Number - UPL 19602 - Staff Sgt August Kurjack cameraman on Mosquito MM370 tasked with the filming of an Aphrodite drone bomb attack on the submarine pens of Le Havre. KIA...
Mission Details
Le Havre, France
Description: HARBOUR INSTALLATION
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: Batty glide bomb mission (388th BG) B-17 loaded with GB-4 glide bombs is launched against Le Harve. A P-38 and a Mosquito assist. The target is missed as missile flightpaths are eratic in the final phase. de Havilland DH98 PR XVI Mosquito MM370 follows down the first launched missile to film it, breaking of the dive when the GB-4 becomes erratic. On the second launch, the pilot follows too closely and A/C is destroyed by the exploding bombs.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 2.35
- People killed in action: 1
- Prisoners of war: 1
- Aircraft sent: 2
- Aircraft missing in action: 1
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People
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: Mosquito
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 802nd Reconnaissance Group (SP) 654th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
AAM DB Entry.
Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II by By H. R. Everett, Michael Toscano
Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Units of World War 2 by Martin W Bowman
Mosquito Production List.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite
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'.