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8 January 1945
media-5461.jpeg UPL 5461 St Margrets at Cliffe. Field in Nelson Park Victory Road. January 8,1945
Please note all of this"white" on the ground and the plane it's SNOW! This snow fell durning the night after this landing in the afternoon.

Millard Greer
109 Ellen Hand Circle
Cedartown,Georgia 30125

Object Number - UPL 5461 - St Margrets at Cliffe. Field in Nelson Park Victory Road. January 8,1945 Please note all of this"white" on the ground and the plane it's SNOW! This...

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

ALZEY

Description: RAIL BRIDGE

BURGHREULAND

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

CLERF

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

DASBURG

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

FRANKFURT

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

KOBLENZ

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

KYLLBURG

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

LUNEBACH

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

Oudler 86, 4791 Burg-Reuland, Belgium

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

SCHWEICH

Description: COMMUNICATION CENTER

SPEICHER

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

SPEYER

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

STADTKYLL

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

WAXWEILLER

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

WITTLICH

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

WUSSEMBOURG

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14118988
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39123260 at enlistment, then O-xxxxxx ?
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-825120
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
The insignia of the 832nd Bomb Squadron, 486th Bomb Group.
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 773315
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Midge
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Sweet Pea
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-10706) nicknamed "Miss Bea Havin'" of the 388th Bomb Group flies over countryside. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Miss Bea Havin 2107062 M, 562 BS.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Worry Bird/Miss Bea Haven
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Doasy Doats
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 1 398th Bomb Group 603rd Bomb Squadron 491st Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Nine men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of a military airplane.  Five men standing to the rear and four men kneeling in front.
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Dark Angel
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th 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'.

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