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3 August 1944
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 5687 - A mission log for Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst of the 91st Bomb Group, 3 August 1944 -15 December 1944. Image via Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst,...
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 18 T
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 6.9 T
Conches
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th Bomb Group, 93rd Bomb Group, 389th Bomb Group, 392nd Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group, 448th Bomb Group, 453rd Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group, 489th Bomb Group, 491 Bomb Group, 492nd Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 81Bomb Group
ETAMPES MONDESIR (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 33 T
JOIGNY/LA ROCHE (Primary)
Description: BRIDGE
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 71 T
MELUN (Opportunistic)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 36 T
Description: OIL REFINERY
Notes: 91st Bomb Group, 92nd Bomb Group, 303rd Bomb Group, 305th Bomb Group, 306th Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Group, 379th Bomb Group, 381st Bomb Group, 384th Bomb Group, 398th Bomb Group, 401st Bomb Group, 457th Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 260.7 T
MULHOUSE (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 161.8 T
SAARBRUCKEN (Opportunistic)
Description: RAILROAD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 25.2 T
SAARBRUCKEN (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 260.7 T
STRASBOURG (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 184.7 T
TOUL/CROIX DE METZ (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 50.2 T
TROYES (Primary)
Description: BRIDGE
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of B-17s is 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
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 93.5 T
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-817438
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: 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
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Betty's Revenge
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Miss Aldaflak Section 8
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Betty J.
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Heaven Can Wait, Boche Buster
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Maggie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th 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'.