345

8 May 1944

Mission Details

BRUSSELS/SCHERBECK (Primary)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 486th Bomb Group & 487th Bomb Group.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 163.5 T HE

LA GLACERIE (Primary)

Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group, 452nd Bomb Group.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 238 T HE

SOTTEVAST (Primary)

Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES

Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 303rd Bomb Group, 379th Bomb Group, 384th Bomb Group.

Connections

See how this entry relates to other items in the archive by exploring the connections below.

People

The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.

Thomas Tidwell Cochran

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34307294
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Flexible Gunner
Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in a single row in front of a military airplane.

John Quinn Curtin

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-800687
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.

Donald R Gordon

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 369th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11069121
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

James Harold Grimmett

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16018325
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Military Occupation specialty 757-Radio Operator/Mechanic/Gunner

Lester Winfield Hall

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-447290
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Aircraft

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31435) nicknamed "West's End" of the 384th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'West's End, 231435. Chin turret removed 6/1/44. Guns fired by pilot. A/C belly landed 6/7/44 after raid in southern England. George F. Sheehan Jr. Sheehan print. 6/7/44 X, 250.'

42-31435

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: West End
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

42-31462

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Roarin Bill
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron

42-31495

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Wabbit Twacks
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

42-31514

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Full House
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron

42-31854

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Baby Buggy
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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'.