398

7 June 1944

Mission Details

Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 39 T

Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 39 T

Description: AIRFIELD

Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 1st Combat Bombardment Wing is 91st Bomb Group, 381st Bomb Group, 398th Bomb Group. 305th Bomb Group also took part.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 284 T

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 75 T

NANTES (Primary)

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 490 T

NANTES BRIDGE (Opportunistic)

Description: RAILROAD BRIDGE

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 68 T

NIORT (Opportunistic)

Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 4th Combat Bombardment Wing is 94th Bomb Group, 447th Bomb Group, 486th Bomb Group; 13rd Combat Bombardment Wing is 95th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group, 45Combat Bombardment Wing is 96th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 452nd Bomb Group; 93rd Combat Bombardment Wing is 385th Bomb Group

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 58 T

POUANCE (Opportunistic)

Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 39 T

Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 8 T

Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 34th Bomb Group, 490th Bomb Group, 493rd Bomb Group.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 36 T

Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 36 T

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Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: I'll Get By
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Chistlin Daddies
  • Unit: 560th Bomb Squadron 388th Bomb Group
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Pretty Baby
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 325th Bomb Squadron 398th Bomb Group
Ground personnel of the 452nd Bomb Group attend to the wreck of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-107134) nicknamed "Round Trip" of the 388th Bomb Group, destroyed by German dive bombers. Image via William C Gaither. Letter from Gaither enclosed with print: ‘These photographers were taken at Poltava, Russia on June 22 1944. On June 21st my group, the 452d and others flew from England to Poltava en route hitting oil refinery at Rhurland, Germany. That night after landing German dive bombers bombed
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Round Trip
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group

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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'.