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21 September 1944

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 31.5 T

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 6 T

KOBLENZ (Primary)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: 2nd Bomb Division -is 92nd BG, 392nd BG, 445th BG, 448th BG, 453rd BG.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 374.7 T

LUDWIGSHAFEN/OPAU (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 96th Bomb Group, 388th BG, 452nd BG, 486th BG, 490th BG

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 412.3 T

MAINZ (Primary)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 303rd BG, 379th BG, 381st BG, 384th BG,

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 405.5 T

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People

Francis E Lutz

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-385299
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Lester J Nichoson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Lawson K Ostrander

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16153770
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Joe B Ousley

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18076448
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
media-52497.pdf (300.14 KB) Document 52497 "So Near and Yet so Far Away". An account of the crash site of B-24 42-110071 "T.S." of the 446th Bomb Group, 705th Bomb Squadron, on 21 September 1944

Information supplied by Lindsay Marriott, a local resident of Bredfield.

Perry R Sharp

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-717113
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Aircraft

42-31484

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mairsy Doats
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron

42-32106

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Worry Bird : Voan : Snuffy
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 711th Bomb Squadron

42-37822

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Lead Banana
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

42-38208

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lilly Belle
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 331st Bomb Squadron 398th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
An airman of the 392nd Bomb Group with a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95012) nicknamed "Trips Daily" Image via John E Bode

42-95012

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Trips Daily
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 577th Bomb Squadron

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Sources

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'.