611
8 September 1944
Object Number - UPL 23948 - Sheldon Weiner, taken at Horsham St. Faith, 1944.
Description
We snafued on the bomb run and missed all the flak.
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 48.2 T
GUSTAVSBURG (Primary)
Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORY
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, 452nd BG, 486th BG, 487th BG, 490th BG, 493rd BG. First mission of 493rd Bomb Group with B-17s.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 543.2 T
KARLSRUHE (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th BG, 93rd BG, 392nd BG, 389th BG, 445th BG, 446th BG, 448th BG, 453rd BG, 458th BG, 466th BG, 467th BG, 489th BG, 491 BG, 492nd BG.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 664.7 T
KASSEL (Primary)
Description: OIL DEPOT
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 380.8T
LUDWIGSHAFEN (Secondary)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 3 T
LUDWIGSHAFEN/OPAU (Primary)
Description: OIL REFINERY
Notes: The first V-2 rocket fired in combat explodes in a Paris suburb. A second on hit a London suburb a few hours later. 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 92nd BG, 303rd BG, 305th BG, 306th BG, 351 BG, 379th BG, 381st BG, 384th BG, 398th BG, 401st BG, 457th BG, 385th Bomb Group & 486th Bomb Group stand down.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 1008 T
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People
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Saint
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hap Hazard : Trouble Buggy
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Anna
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 569th 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'.