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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

42-94919

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Smokey
  • Unit: 34th Bomb Group

42-97142

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Thor, God of Thunder
  • Unit: 546th Bomb Squadron 457th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group

42-97150

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Silver Queen
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (SO-K, serial number 42-97204) of the 547th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Bob (R.L.) Coleman, Conn.'

42-97204

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Skylark
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron

42-97251

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Snuffy
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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Changes
Sources

John Sinclair from Chester L. Sinclair Diary

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ContributorAAM
Changes
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'.