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18 August 1944
18 August 1944
Target - Woippy, France
466th BG Archives
Object Number - UPL 7246 - 466th BG Photo Section Mission Briefing Board 18 August 1944 Target - Woippy, France
Description
We led the Wing to France to bomb a fuel dump. Made 3 runs on the target. We hit it on the third run. Major Harmon flew Pilot; 12000 feet altitude.
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 2.5 T
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 36 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 94.5 T
EINDHOVEN (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 36 T
Description: BRIDGE
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 102.5 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 86.8 T
LIEGE/BENOIT (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 103 T
LIEGE/SERAING (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 76 T
MAASTRICHT (Primary)
Description: BRIDGE
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 72 T
Metz, France
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th BG, 389th BG, 445th BG, 453rd BG, 458th BG, 466th BG, 467th BG, 491 BG, 492nd BG. 93rd BG, 446th BG, 489th Bomb Group stand down
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 241.5 T
NAMUR (Primary)
Description: BRIDGE
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 92nd BG, 305th BG, 379th BG, 384th BG, 351st BG, 401st BG, 457th BG. 91st Bomb Group, 303rd BG, 306th BG, 381st BG, 398th Bomb Group stand down.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 109.5 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 196 T
PACY-SUR-ARMANCON (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 98 T
ST DIZIER (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of B-17s is 94th BG, 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th BG, 385th BG, 388th BG, 390th BG, 447th BG, 452nd BG,
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 215. 6 T
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 39 T
Vise, Belgium
Description: BRIDGE
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 73.3 T
Woippy, France
Description: Primary target: aircraft factory in Woippy, France
Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
Notes: 24 A/C of the 458th BG were assigned to this tactical bombing mission. The first squadron bombed visually with good results. The second squadron, owing to a collision between the lead and deputy lead at the Initial Point, bombed a target of opportunity (an airfield north of Metz) visually with fair results.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 162.2 T
- Aircraft sent: 24
- Aircraft effective: 20
- Aircraft damaged: 1
Description: BRIDGE
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 105 T
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-693290
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 510th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-407795
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38228914
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37536427
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Lower Ball Turret Gunner/Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-717475
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Silver Slipper
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hell's Messenger
- Unit: 2nd Strategic Air Depot 364th Fighter Group 544th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: ETO Happy : Pregnant Goose : Dollys Daughter
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Trips Daily
- Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 577th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Briney Marlin
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Aircraft and personnel added by Timothy Motz from notes by Harold Motz
466th BG Archives - 786th BS Combat Crew Mission Record charg
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'.