642

19 September 1944
media-26096.jpeg UPL 26096 map of Eighth Air Force mission #642 to Koblenz on September 19, 1944. From the estate of Harold Motz, navigator on the Westrope crew, 708th squadron, 447th bomb group. Harold notes on the back of the map, "one engine feathered"

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 26096 - map of Eighth Air Force mission #642 to Koblenz on September 19, 1944. From the estate of Harold Motz, navigator on the Westrope crew, 708th...

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 18 T

DARMSTADT (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 60.2 T

DILLENBURG (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 32 T

DILLENBURG (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 97.5 T

DORTMUND/UNNA (Primary)

Description: RAIL DEPOT

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 180.3 T

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 20.5 T

HAMM (Primary)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 92nd BG, 303rd BG, 305th BG, 306th BG, 351st BG, 379th BG,381st BG, 384th BG, 385th BG,389th BG, 401st BG, 457th BG, 486th BG.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 460.1 T

HAMM CITY (Opportunistic)

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 15 T

KOBLENZ (Opportunistic)

Description: BRIDGE

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 75 T

KOBLENZ (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of B-17s is34th BG, 44th BG, 95th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group, 385th BG, 388th BG, 447th BG, 452nd BG, 486th BG, 490th BG, 493rd BG. 95th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group and 390th Bomb Group stand down.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 244.5 T

KOBLENZ (Opportunistic)

Description: RAILROAD LINE

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 39 T

KOBLENZ (Opportunistic)

Description: RHINE RIVER BRIDGE

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 36 T

LIMBURG (Opportunistic)

Description: BRIDGE

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 82 T

LIMBURG (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 101.5 T

MUNSTER (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 8.8 T

OSNABRUCK (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 2 T

RAESFELD (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 33 T

RHEINE (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 18 T

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 95.2 T

WEISBADEN (Opportunistic)

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 82.5 T

WEISBADEN (Opportunistic)

Description: RHINE RIVER BRIDGE

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 109.5 T

WESEL (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 26.2 T

WETZLAR (Opportunistic)

Description: RHINE RIVER BRIDGE

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 40.5 T

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People

Aircraft

French prisoners of war await transport home in a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97931) nicknamed "Madame Queen" of the 401st Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'French POW's flown back to France after war. IN-Q then IW-A "Madame Queen".'

42-97931

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Madame queen
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
Ground personnel of the 401st Bomb Group attend to a crashed B-17 (SC-S, serial number 42-97938) nicknamed "Twan-n-g-g" piloted by Lieutenant Donald M. Schliemann. Printed caption on reverse: '65727 AC- When Lt Donald M Schliemann was landing the Boeing B-17 "Twan-n-g-g" after the mission over Munster, Germany, the landing gear buckled and the plane careened off the runway coming to a stop on the perimeter. Here 401st Bomb Group inspect the damage to the plane 28 October 1944. (Aircraft no. 42-97938). US

42-97938

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Twan-n-g-g-g
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

42-97941

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Marion
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron
Ten men in Air Force combat flying gear posed in front of a military airplane. Five men standing to the rear and four men kneeling in front. Large canvas bags are laying in front of kneeling men

42-97986

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 544th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron 305th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

43-37551

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
Contributormarshaferraro
Changes
Sources

Personal list of 30 missions Lloyd C. Kenagy participated in with the 401st Bomb Group 613th Squadron between Aug 1, 1944 and April 11, 1945.

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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