787
8 January 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
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2045208
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11128194 at enlistment, then O-xxxxxx ?
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- 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: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15327540 / O-700574
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Alex
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lorraine
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sweet Chariot
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- 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'.