727

27 November 1944

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Description: FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSION

Notes: A mix of 460 P-47s and P-51s fly a fighter-bomber mission against oil targets in North and Central Germany. A swarm of 750 Luftwaffe fighters attack in the Magdeburg-Munster-Hannover areas when they mistake the fighter formation for a heavy bomber formation. This is the largest apposing Luftwaffe fighter force sighted to date. The 489th Bomb Group departs the UK for the US on this date. They will be re-equipped with B29s in 1945 and sent to the Pacific Theater.

BINGEN

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

FREIBURG

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

OFFENBURG

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Connections

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People

James M Groat

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 833rd Bomb Squadron
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner

Robert D Harris

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33568980
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Fred A Knapp

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 93rd Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

George L Nason

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Douglas J Putnam

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Aircraft

42-102933

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Gremlins Hotel : Queenie
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron

42-107083

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

42-37822

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

42-38013

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Nevada Avenger
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron

42-95021

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: San Antonio Rose
  • Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th 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'.