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3 August 1944IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
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: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 510th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-818241
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot/Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37113111
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 491st Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 0839080
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Armorer
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Go Getter
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Fire Ball Red
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Big Casino
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Shape
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Able Mabel
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th 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'.