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1 November 1944
Connected to airman's record using information in the caption.
Object Number - FRE 4745 - This is Dominick DeSalvo Ground Crew Chief assigned to the 524th BS of the 379th Bomb Group. He is standing in front of his B-17 Flying Fortress...
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
GELSENKIRCHEN/BUER
Description: OIL REFINERY
Notes: A mix of 109 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.
GELSENKIRCHEN/NORDSTERN
Description: OIL REFINERY
Notes: A mix of 140 P-47s and P-51s provide escort for this mission. Mix not given in available data. The 20th Fighter Group was attacked by a single ME-262 jet aircraft which recorded the kill of a single P-51. After the ME-262 shot down the P-51 it then attacked the bomber stream, but a mixed formation of P-51s and P-47s swarmed the ME-262. A P-47 pilot of the 56th Fighter group and Lts. Gerbe and Groce of the 352nd Fighter group, flying P-51s shared credit for the ME-262 kill.
HAMM
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
KOBLENZ
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
RUDESHEIM
Description: RAILROAD BRIDGES
Connections
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People
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tu Yung Tu
- Unit: 410th Bomb Squadron 94th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 546th 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'.