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2 October 1944Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 2.5 T
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 40.3 T
COLOGNE
Description: MOTOR VEHICLE FACTORY
Notes: 41CBW is 303rd BG, 379th Bomb Group & 384th BG.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 272.5 T
FRITZLAR AIRFIELD (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 30 T
GESECKE
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 21.5 T
KASSEL (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX - William Craig Hunter notes from mission: No. 1500 Lb Henschel & Son Tank Factory France, Belgium, Germany, England
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 271.8 T
KASSEL/BETTENHAUSEN (Primary)
Description: ORDNANCE FACTORY
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 92nd BG, 305th BG, 306th BG, 351st BG, 379th BG, 385th BG, 389th BG, 401st BG, 457th BG, 486th BG. 381st Bomb Group & 457th Bomb Group stand down
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 319.4 T
KASSEL/HENSCHEL (Primary)
Description: MOTOR VEHICLE FACTORY
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of B-17s is34th BG, 44th BG, 94th BG, 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th BG, 385th BG, 388th BG, 390th BG, 447th BG, 452nd BG, 486th BG, 487th BG, 490th Bomb Group 493rd BG.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 970.6 T
WEISBADEN (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 75.3 T
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18194853
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 851st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-766252
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier - 1035
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35151793
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32624262
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Kentucky Colonel aka Helena II
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Doasy Doats
- Unit: Base Air Depot 1 398th Bomb Group 603rd Bomb Squadron 491st Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Roarin Bill
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Ikky Poo
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 561st Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Nevada Avenger
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th 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'.