754
18 December 1944
L-R Standing: Technical Sergeant Charles W Ford, Engineer/Top Turret Gunner; First Lieutenant Joseph J Sarto, Visual (Pilotage) Navigator; First Lieutenant Kenneth S Lord, Navigator; First Lieutenant Albert J Merlis, Gee-H Navigator; Captain Charles D Bonnett, Bombardier; Staff Sergeant Raymond A Panici, Flexible Gunner.
L-R Sitting: Major Maurice A Booska, Air Commander; Captain Joe R Carnes, Pilot; Technical Sergeant Albert K Sherriff, Radio Operator; Second Lieutenant Roy E Dobson, Tail Gunner/Observer; Staff Sergeant Irving L Miller, Flexible Gunner.
Object Number - UPL 67770 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 18 December 1944/ Koblenz, Germany (secondary). L-R Standing: Technical Sergeant Charles W Ford, Engineer/Top Turret...
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Description: COMMUNICATIONS TARGETS
Notes: 358 B024s are despatched but are recalled due to weather.
Description: FIGHTER SWEEPS
Notes: 255 P-47s and P-51s fly a fighter sweep. Mix not given in available data.
BONN
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
COLOGNE/KALK
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
KAISERSLAUTERN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
KOBLENZ/LUTZEL
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
MAINZ
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35709304
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35803789
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33586498
- Highest Rank: Technician Fourth Grade
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16139297 / O-824974
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: A & G Fish Shoppe
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Ill Get By
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Snuffy
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lady Margaret
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Boss Lady
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th 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'.