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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: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39920700
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 322nd Bomb Squadron 324th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0 774 903
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot/Co Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 491st Bomb Group 855th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-831252
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12225719
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 359th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-823677
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Day and Night
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Gambler's Choice
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 569th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Bottle Baby
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th 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'.