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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

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People

Kenneth Myron Jones

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-699180
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.

Vernon Herman Kaufman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Joseph John Kozar

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33421883
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.

Richard W Lambert

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 369th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-811405
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

William Frederick Laubenstein

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32040920
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner

Aircraft

42-38013

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Nevada Avenger
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a military airplane. Six men standing to the rear, four men kneeling in front. The men are wearing combat flying gear.

42-97072

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Green Mountain Gal
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 384th Bomb Group drop bombs over Dijon. Printed caption on reverse: '50917 AC- Bombs from Boein B-17 Flying Fortresses dropping on Dijon. US Air Force Photo.' Handwritten on reverse: '28/3/44.'

42-97081

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron

42-97136

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (SO-K, serial number 42-97204) of the 547th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Bob (R.L.) Coleman, Conn.'

42-97204

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Skylark
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron

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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'.