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23 February 1945Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
ADELSBERG
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
ANSBACH
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
CRAILSHEIM
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
ELLINGEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
FRITZLAR
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
FULDA
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
GERA
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: AC 44-8413 of the 490th BG flew this mission, although crews notes indicate it was on 2-22-45. Crew indicated targets were "communication lines". This crew got separated from the main formation and bombed a railroad yard as a "target of opportunity" in order to reduce weight so they had enough fuel to get back to base. (See video account of this mission in video of Wendell R. Lee.)
HILDBURGHAUSEN
Description: RAIL JUNCTION
JENA
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
KITZINGEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
Description: AIRFIELD
LEIPHEIM
Description: AIRFIELD
LICHTENFELDS
Description: RAILROADS
MEININGEN
Description: RAILROADS
NEUBERG
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 141 P-47s and P-51s make a strafing sweep over these airfields.
NEUMARKT
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
NORDLINGEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
OSNABRUCK
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
OTTINGEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
PADERBORN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
PLAUEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
REICHENBACH
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
SCHLUCHTERN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
SCHWABISHCH HALL
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
SCHWEINFURT
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
STEINAU
Description: RAILROADS
TREUCHTLINGEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: This is a continuation of OPERATION CLARION
WEIMAR
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
WINTERHAUSEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
WURZBURG
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
ZWOLLE
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-523465
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot / Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34796020
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37705979
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Dynamite John
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Big Dog
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th 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: 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
Revisions
Personal list of 30 missions Lloyd C. Kenagy participated in with the 401st Bomb Group 613th Squadron between Aug 1, 1944 and April 11, 1945.
Tommy Ryan Lee, son of Wendell R. Lee, Waist gunner and radio operator on AC 44-8413. Video of Wendell R. Lee.
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'.