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24 June 1944Mission Details
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 77.5 T
Description: UNKNOWN
Notes: 490th Bomb Group, 493rd Bomb Group
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 0.00
Bremen, Germany
Description: OIL REFINERY
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 92nd Bomb Group, 303rd Bomb Group, 305th Bomb Group, 306th Bomb Group, 379th Bomb Group, 381st Bomb Group, 384th Bomb Group. 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 94th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group,388th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group, 452nd Bomb Group, 447th Bomb Group, 486th Bomb Group, 487th Bomb Group
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 526.3 T
BREMEN CITY (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 114 T
CHATEAUDUN (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 111.8 T
CONCHES (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 93rd Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group, 489th Bomb Group, 491st Bomb Group.3rd Bomb Division was made up of 34th Bomb Group, 385th Bomb Group, 490th Bomb Group, 493rd Bomb Group
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 188.6 T
DREUX (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 19.2 T
ORLEANS/BRICY (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 89.6 T
PAS-DE-CALAIS
Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES
Notes: 12 Sites are targeted, but overcast masks the sites. 11 B-17s then divert to Rouen, France and bomb the industrial area. 1 B-17 is lost to AA fire. (See above)
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 31.1 T
ROUEN (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Notes: Specific units not correlated with target in source data.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 27.5T
SAUMUR (Primary)
Description: BRIDGE
Notes: 91st Bomb Group, 38th Bomb Group
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 197.5 T
TOURS/LA RICHE (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 84.4 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 27.9 t
WESERMUNDE (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 127 T
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0683704, 36153242
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15097718 / O-695264
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Nose Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 834th Bomb Squadron 835th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35092141
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer / Top Turret Gunner / Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 544th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Spirit of 96
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: White Angel
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Miss Fitt
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 547th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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'.