370
25 May 1944
25 May 1944
466th BG
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Object Number - UPL 23768 - Strike photo - Mulhouse, France 25 May 1944 466th BG
Description
First mission. Up at 5:00 AM and back at 11:00. Good hit on marshaling yards. Our plane was hit but no-one in our crew was hit.
Mission Details
ALOST (Secondary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 23.5 T HE
BELFORT (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: Mission 370 is the largest raid to date based on the number of targets (21) to be attacked. Destruction of marshalling yards is a key strategy in preparation for the coming invasion on D-Day 6 June 1944. Luftwaffe opposition is light because prior mission have nearly decimated the Luftwaffe in France. 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th Bomb Group, 93rd Bomb Group, 392nd Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group, 453rd Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group, 492nd Bomb Group.
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 222.4 T HE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 90 T HE
BRETIGNY (Secondary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 90.5 T HE
BRUSSELS/MELSBROEK (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 45 T HE
BRUSSELS/MIDI (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 71 T HE
BRUSSELS/SCHAERBECK (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: Not clear in source data which 3rd Bomb Division Bomb Groups hit these targets (See 3rd Bomb Divisionunits participating above )
![Three B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 94th Bomb Group are attacked by a Nazi Fighter aircraft during a mission. Printed caption on reverse of print: 'A-62641 USAF: Nazi fighter plane attacking Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses" during a bomb run over enemy installations somewhere in Europe, 10 September 1944. 100th[sic] Bomb Group, 3rd Bomb Division. U.S. Air Force Photo.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-408505.jpg.webp?itok=zJwHCUjh)
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 127.5 T HE
DIJON (Secondary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 3 T HE
FECAMP (Primary)
Description: GUN BATTERY
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 389th Bomb Group & 448th Bomb Group
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 51.8 T HE
FECAMP (Primary)
Description: GUN BATTERY
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 390th Bomb Group
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 50 T HE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 125 T HE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 125 T HE
LIEGE (Secondary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 7.5 T HE
METZ (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: 457th BG - MISSION NO. 51 - METZ, FRANCE 25 MAY, 1944 The railroad marshaling yards at Metz was the primary target for the 45 7th. Metz was on the main line from Saarbrucken to Paris. The Group provided two twelve-ship boxes for the mission. The lead box hit the assigned MPI, a locomotive workshop, within approximately 1,000 feet. The low box was more successful, scoring direct hits on the workshop, the yards and the adjoining buildings. No enemy aircraft were encountered. Flak was meager and inaccurate.
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 161 T HE
MONTIGNIES SUR SAMBRE (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 34th Bomb Group, 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, 487th Bomb Group. Not clear in source data which 3rd Bomb Division Bomb Groups hit these targets.
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 198 T HE
MULHOUSE (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 348 T HE
NANCY/ESSAY (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st 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.
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 130 T HE
SAARGUEMINES (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 90 T HE
ST.VALERY (Primary)
Description: GUN BATTERY
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 92nd Bomb Group
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 45 T HE
THIONVILLE (Opportunistic)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 137.3 T HE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 30 T HE
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36215923 / O-692248
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 06966455
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier, Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: - Little Sheppard
- Unit: 448th Bomb Group 712th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 578th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
- Nicknames: Lois Rose
- Unit: 323rd Bomb Group 455th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Diana Queen Of The Chase
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 325th Bomb Squadron 92nd Bomb Group
Revisions
Daughter - Carol Rollinger McKeever
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'.
