662
3 October 1944
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 26122 - Map of Eighth Air Force mission #662 to Gilberstadt (Giebelstadt?) on October 3, 1944. From the estate of Harold Motz, navigator on the Westrope...
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 2.5 T
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 58 T
COLOGNE (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 65 T
GAGGENAU (Primary)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44 BG, 93rd BG, 389th BG, 392nd BG, 445th BG, 446th BG, 448th BG, 453rd BG, 458th BG, 466th BG, 467th BG, 492nd BG. 490th Bomb Group stands down.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 402.5 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of34 BG, 94th BG, 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th BG, 351st BG, 385th BG, 388th BG, 390th BG, 447th BG, 452nd BG, 486th BG, 487th BG, 493rd BG. 381st BG, & 457th Bomb Group stand down.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 115 T
LACHEN (O0
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 5 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 294 T
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 26 T
NURNBERG (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 619 T
NURNBERG (Primary)
Description: MOTOR VEHICLE FACTORY
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 92nd BG, 305th BG, 306th BG, 398th BG, 401st BG, 482nd BG.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 483 T
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 55 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 25 T
PFORZHEIM (Secondary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 52.5 T
SPEYER (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 70.70
ULM (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 32.5 T
WESSELING (Primary)
Description: OIL REFINERY
Notes: 41CBW is 303rd BG, 379th Bomb Group & 384th BG.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 217.5 T
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 549th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32845263
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-795809
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-717475
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Air Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 96th Combat Bomb Wing 466th Bomb Group 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron 784th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-807872
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hells Angels Out Of Chute 13, Grossly Inadequate
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Trips Daily
- Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 577th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Ill Get By
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Good Pickin
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hot Rock
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th 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'.