769
29 December 1944
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 1700 - B-17s of the 398th Bomb Group bombing the railyard at Bingen, 29 December 1944. Printed caption on reverse: '57548 AC- With bomb bay doors open, the...
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
ASCHAFFENBURG
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
BINGEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: According to loss report their primary mission was in France but it was obscured by weather so they diverted to the secondary target, Bingen on the Rhine to hit River Port and Railroad yards.
BULLAY
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
DIDKIRCH
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Prüm
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
Mission Statistics
- Aircraft effective: 10
DUPPACH
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
FRANKFURT
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
GEROLSTEIN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
GROSSLITTGEN
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
IRLICH
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
LUNEBACH
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
REMAGEN BRIDGE
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
SCHLEIDEN
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
STADTKYLL
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
TELM
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
WITTLICH
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
ZULPICH
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 733rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11085503
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer, Top Turret Gunner, Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36563521
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hard Seventeen, Hard Luck
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 447th Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Statement of Charges
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: D-Day Dottie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pretty Baby
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Cover Girl
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Linked Lt Childs and Capt Lamb to mission - Lamb ditched in channel on return, Childs, his wingman directed ASR to his location.
Clarification to previous edit. Location of Prum target corrected. See:
http://www.8thafhs.com/maps.php?lat=50.2073&lon=6.42471&target_name=PRU…
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'.