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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

Edward Joseph Huntzinger

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32931560
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Flight Engineer

Donald W Jeffrey

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35900479
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
  • Role/Job: Togglier

Walter Loraine Johnson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-720260
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Leslie Ashton Lennox

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-822749
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

James H Lorenz

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-771461
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-97395

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Chute The Works
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

42-97478

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Shade Ruff #2
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

42-97824

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of a military airplane parked on grass. Six men standing to the rear and four men kneeling in front. Large canvas bags are on the ground.

42-98027

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Swamp Angel
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

43-37551

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th 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'.