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9 May 1944Timothy Motz, from Pictorial History of the 447th Bombardment Group (H) https://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/41056
Mission Details
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 2 T HE
FLORENNES (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th Bomb Group, 93rd Bomb Group, 389th Bomb Group, 382nd Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group, 448th Bomb Group, 453rd Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 200 T HE
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 12 T HE
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 94th Bomb Group, 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group, 385th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group, 447th Bomb Group, 452nd Bomb Group, 486th Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 151 T HE
LAON/ATHIES (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 117 T HE
LAON/COUVRON (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 79 T HE
LAON/COUVRON (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 164 T HE
LIEGE (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 224 T HE
LILLE/VENDEVILLE (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 19 T HE
LUXEMBOURG (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: 457th BG - MISSION NO. 42 - CITY OF LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG 9 MAY, 1944 The target was the Luxembourg marshalling yards. Eighteen aircraft composed the Group squadron flying the high box in the 94th Combat Wing. Major Leroy Watson was Air Commander with Lt. Mark R. Beicher as pilot . The Group proceeded to the target without incident. Over the target the lead craft had started a 360 degree turn when, for some unexplained reason, the red Aldis lamp was moved. This caused a reflection which the Deputy Lead construed as the signal to take over and to drop the bombs. The Group then dropped their bombs on the Deputy Lead's bombs. Bombing results were poor.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 133 T HE
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 26 T HE
ST. DIZIER (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: This mission begins the pre-invasion bombing of airfields and marshalling yards in France. 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 92nd Bomb Group, 303rd Bomb Group, 305th Bomb Group, 306th Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Group, 379th Bomb Group, 381st Bomb Group, 384th Bomb Group, 398th Bomb Group,401st Bomb Group, 457th Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 140 T HE
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 227 T HE
THIONVILLE (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 93 T HE
THIONVILLE (Secondary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 91 T HE
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32583791
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15322063
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35447653
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: - Hitler's Headache
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Swiss Miss
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: El's Belles
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Paisano
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Little Kenny
- Unit: 544th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group
Revisions
Mission details added courtesy of Diane Elizabeth Reese from 457th Bomb Group Mission Documents. http://www.457thbombgroup.org/
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'.