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24 February 1945

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

BIELEFELD

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

BREMEN

Description: RAIL BRIDGE

BREMEN/DESCHIMAG

Description: SUBMARINE PENS

BRINKUM

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

HAMBURG/ALBRECT

Description: OIL REFINERY

HAMBURG/HARBURG

Description: OIL REFINERY

HANNOVER

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

LEHRTE

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

LINGEN

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

MINDEN

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

MISBURG

Description: OIL REFINERY

OSNABRUCK

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

QUACKENBRUCK

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

WESEL

Description: RAIL BRIDGE

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People

Frank J Calicura

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 3rd Air Division 13th Combat Bomb Wing 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Gabriel Joseph Chapra

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12120011
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Robert Earl Conrad

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron 703rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33507972 / O-2064220
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Arl Benjamin Cross

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 383599659
  • Highest Rank: Technician Fourth Grade
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Raymond William Detweiler

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12151230
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Flight Engineer

Aircraft

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.

42-107148

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Dark Angel
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Factory fresh B-17s

42-107151

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Cover Girl
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

42-31072

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Betty J.
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron

42-31591

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Homesick Angel
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
Ground personnel of the 401st Bomb Group stand with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31662) nicknamed "Fancy Nancy IV" after fixing her engines. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Another famous Fort and her crew.'

42-31662

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fancy Nancy IV
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
Contributorspiritofmartinez45
Changes
Sources

Corrected linked image.

Date
Contributordwgdallas
Changes
Sources

The personal collection of Lt. Billy J. Murray

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
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'.