623

11 September 1944
media-25922.jpeg UPL 25922 Map of 8th air force mission #623 to Fulda, on September 11, 1944. From the estate of Harold Motz, navigator on the Westrope crew, 708th squadron, 447th bomb group. Harold's list of missions describe this as Fulda, but the note on the back of the map describes it as Bohlen.

Original map now in the collection of the Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton, Ohio. 447th Bomb Group collection

Timothy Motz

Object Number - UPL 25922 - Map of 8th air force mission #623 to Fulda, on September 11, 1944. From the estate of Harold Motz, navigator on the Westrope crew, 708th squadron,...

Description

Major Harmon flew Command Pilot. Did not hit the target because Mickey wasn't working. Brought our bombs back. Got to shoot at some fighters.

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 38.5 T

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 62.5 T

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 8.2 T

BOHLEN (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Notes: An estimated 525 Luftwaffe fighters attack the bomber streams of this three part mission. This is the greatest Luftwaffe attack since 28-May-44. However, the Luftwaffe gets terrible punishment: 17-25-4 by the bomber gunners ND 115-7-23 by the fighter escort with another 42-0-43 on the ground.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 173 T

BRUX (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of B-17s is,44th BG, 94th BG, 95th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group, 100th BG, 390th BG, 447th BG, 452nd BG, 486th BG, 490th BG, 493rd BG. 385th Bomb Group & 388th Bomb Group stand down

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 95.3 T

CHEMNITZ (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Notes: This force is an OPERATION FRANTIC mission that along with 64 P-51s continues on to land at bases in the USSR. 96th Bomb Group & 452nd BG

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 146.4 T

DIEPHOLZ (Opportunistic)

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 22.5 T

EISENACH (Opportunistic)

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 177.5 T

FULDA (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 95.1 T

FULDA (Opportunistic)

Description: TYRE PLANT

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 159.7 T

HANNOVER (Opportunistic)

Description: ENGINE FACTORY

Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th BG, 92nd BG, 93rd BG, 385th BG, 389th BG, 445th BG, 453rd BG, 458th BG, 466th BG, 467th BG, 489th BG, 491 BG, 492nd BG. 446th Bomb Group stands down.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 298.7 T

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 30 T

LUTZKENDORF (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

Notes: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the high section of the 41st "A" Combat Bombardment Wing on this mission. The primary target, oil installations near Lützkendorf, Germany, were obscured by a solid undercast, as was the secondary and an airfield near Giessen. Finally, a successful visual attack was accomplished on an unidentified factory in the Friedberg, Germany, area. This group saw several Me-163 'Komet' rocket-powered aircraft in the vicinity of Leipzig, and one near the Belgian coast, but they were not attacked.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 233.7 T

MAGDEBURG (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 78.5 T

MAGDEBURG (Primary)

Description: ORDNANCE DEPOT

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 64.7 T

MAGDEBURG CITY (Opportunistic)

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 157 T

MERSEBURG (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

Notes: 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, 385th BG, 401st BG, 486th BG. 398th Bomb Group & 457th Bomb Group stand down.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 278.6 T

MISBURG (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 243.2 T

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 15 T

RUHLAND (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 53 T

STENDAL (Opportunistic)

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 107.5 T

Connections

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 322nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 331st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19084452
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-764608
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 331st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12127921
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hard Seventeen, Hard Luck
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 447th Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Big Dog
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Packawalup III
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 94th Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Gremlins Hotel : Queenie
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Pretty Baby
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
Contributorrichmu88
Changes
Sources

DOnald Muckermans personal records

Date
Contributorcmckeever
Changes
Sources

Daughter - Carol Rollinger McKeever

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

"Attlebridge Diaries" - John Woolnough
Page 120

Date
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'.

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