545
12 August 1944
Lt. Ray H. Armor, Pilot; Lt. Joseph Buehler, Navigator
Object Number - UPL 90601 - Armor's Crew, 600th Squadron, 12 August 1944. Back Row (viewer's left to right): Sgt. William A. Cole, Tail Gunner; Pvt. Delmer R. Williamson, Waist...
Mission Details
BUC (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 148.2 T
CHAUMONT (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of B-17 is 91st Bomb Group, 92nd BG.303rd BG, 305th BG, 306th BG, 379th BG, 384th BG, 398th BG.
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 136.2 T
ETAMPES/MONDESIR (Secondary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 33 T
JUVENCOURT (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 131.2 T
La Perthe, 10400 Périgny-la-Rose, France
Description: AIRFIELD
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) provided all three groups of the 41st "C" Combat Bombardment Wing on today's mission. The mission proceeded generally as briefed, up until bomb release - then the bomb release on the high group lead aircraft failed to operate. The high group leader asked wing for permission to make a second run, which was granted, but the target was so obscured by prior bombing that they were unable to aim accurately. The high group then proceeded to the briefed secondary, an airfield between Étampes and Mondesir and completed a successful attack there.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 95.7 T
- Aircraft sent: 43
- Aircraft effective: 36
LAON/ATHIES (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 158.1 T
LAON/COUVRON (Primary) / Coudrey, 38570 Morêtel-de-Mailles, France
Description: AIRFIELD Excerpt from Ted's Travelling Circus: 93rd Bombardment Group (H) - USAAF - 1942-45 by Carroll (Cal) Stewart. Page 368 "Briefing at 0330 hours. Target: Laon/Coudrey Aerodrome. Captain Arthur Williamson, just returned from the States to begin a second tour, was in the command role for the 24-plane Circus force. This was a near-perfect mission - good visibility, good formation, excellent bombing, no losses although several ships inhaled flak. Pilot Dunlap put down at RAF Framlingham. "
Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 156.5 T
Metz, France
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 207 T
MOURMELON (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th BG, 389th BG, 392nd BG, 453rd BG, 458th BG, 466th BG, 467th BG, 489th BG, 491 BG, 492nd BG.
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 208.7 T
TOULOUSE/FRANCAZAL
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: This is the last leg of the shuttle-bombing mission from the UK-USSR-Italy-UK. 72 B-17s are despatched from Fifteenth AF bases in Italy, 3 have problems and abort, the remainder bomb this airfield in France and proceed to the UK. 62 P-51s that are part of the shuttle mission force escort the bombers along with 43 despatched from the UK. No aircraft are lost.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 158.8 T
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36743988
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator / Mechanic / Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15125471 / O-767423
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36688087
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 506th Bomb Squadron 68th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot; Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Gruesome Goose
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Rough Riders
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Miss Lace
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Spam-O-Liner
- Unit: 545th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group
Revisions
466th BG Archives - Report on Mission No 103 - 12 August 1944 - Mourmelon, France
NARA Research by Brad Sullivan
Ted's Travelling Circus: 93rd Bombardment Group (H) - USAAF - 1942-45 by Carroll (Cal) Stewart. Page 368
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'.
