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18 August 1944

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 26 T

Angle Avenue de Brigachtal et, Rue Christian Moench, 54270 Essey-lès-Nancy, France

Description: AIRFIELD IN NANCY ESSEY, FRANCE

Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of B-24s is 34th BG, 493rd BG. First mission for Chester L. Sinclair from his diary. Remarks: No flak; no fighters. Bomb Load: 12 - 500lb. bombs. Bomb Altitude: 15000 Ft. Time: 7:45 Hrs.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 76.3 T

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Aircraft

42-107121

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Kentucky Colonel aka Helena II
  • Unit: 398th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron

42-110078

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Shoo-Shoo Baby
  • Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 735th Bomb Squadron

42-32106

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Worry Bird : Voan : Snuffy
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 711th Bomb Squadron

42-38014

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Little America II
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron

42-39888

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: HotNuts
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 1 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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Sources

John Sinclair from Chester L. Sinclair Diary

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ContributorAAM
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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'.