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

A B-17G Flying Fortress (ET-B, serial number 42-31989) of the 336th Bomb Squadron, 95th Bomb Group that has crash-landed 1 April 1944. Official caption on image: "569(44). 4-1-44. Hon. Crash Landing Damage. B-17G, 42-31989. AM-FS..."

42-31989

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Spam Can : Black Magic : Shady Lady
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 535th Bomb Squadron

42-37879

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Wrinkled Belly Baby
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-37882) of the 95th Bomb Group landing at Colorado in October 1943. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-17G-15-DL Denver, Colorada, October 1943.'

42-37882

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hard Time : A-Good-Bett : Blues in the Reich
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron

42-37889

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Pride of Vhelhalis
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-37894) nicknamed "Pegasus IV" of the 95th Bomb Group flies above the clouds. Image stamped on reverse: 'U.S. Air Force Photo 1361st Photographic Squadron Aerospace Audio-visual Services ( MAC)'[stamp] Printed caption on reverse: 'A-26344 - FORT FORTIFIED: During a recent raid over Bremen, Germany by the 8th AAF, a closeup of the new chin-turrent Flying Fortress was picked out of a formation for study. Making the Fort a more deadly weapon of air offense, the softeni

42-37894

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Pegasus IV
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th 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'.