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29 April 1944
29 April 1944 - Berlin
The 466th BG would have two KIA, 16 POW and three evades as the result of one aircraft shot down (Cotner Crew), one crash landed in Holland (Hitchcock Crew) and one ditched in the Channel (389th BG PFF ship carrying Capt. Ralph Bryant). 466th Bomb Group collection
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Attlebridge Diaries - John Woolnough
Object Number - UPL 19350 - 466th BG Mission Route Map 29 April 1944 - Berlin The 466th BG would have two KIA, 16 POW and three evades as the result of one aircraft shot...
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
BERLIN (Primary)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Notes: 4 COMBAT BOMBARDMENT WING was off course, strongly attacked by fighters, and attacked Magdeburg instead of Berlin. 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 95th 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. 447th Bomb Group had a really bad day losing 11 aircraft.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 291 T HE 188 T IB
BERLIN (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: 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, 401st Bomb Group, 457th Bomb Group. 457th BG - MISSION NO. 36 - BERLIN, GERMANY 29 APRIL, 1944 This mission took the Group to the business district of Berlin. Twelve Combat Wings were directed to Berlin. The Group supplied twenty-four aircraft and flew as the high box in the 94th Combat Wing. Major George C. Hozier flew as Air Commander, and Lt. Mark R. Beicher as pilot. There was an undercast at the target area. All aircraft dropped bombs on the Wing Lead PFF ship. Bombing results were unobserved. No enemy aircraft were observed; flak was moderate to intense. No aircraft were lost. Other wings were not so fortunate. One B-24 Group lost eighteen planes near Magdeburg, and a total of sixty-three bombers failed to
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 316 T HE 155 T IB
BERLIN (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th Bomb Group, 93rd Bomb Group, 389th Bomb Group, 392nd Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group, 448th Bomb Group, 453rd Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group. A shot-down B-24 with full bomb load was observed crashing into the VW factory near Fallersleben.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 158 T HE 390 T IB
BRANDENBURG (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
MAGDEBURG (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 331st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-819790
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 506th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: general maintenance, spare bomber gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 711th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31083077
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0683704, 36153242
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: Canadian
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 711th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39616202
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Helena
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 547th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Round Trip
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Puddles
- Unit: 3rd Bomb Division 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
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'.