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7 October 1944
media-7291.jpeg UPL 7291 Strike Photo - Lutzendorf, Germany
7 October 1944
466th BG 466th Bomb Group collection

466th BG Historian

Object Number - UPL 7291 - Strike Photo - Lutzendorf, Germany 7 October 1944 466th BG

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 17.00

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 217.50

BERGEN/STEINFURT (Opportunistic)

Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 24.00

BIELEFELD (Opportunistic)

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 123.00

BOHLEN (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 205.00

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 384.40

DRESDEN (Opportunistic)

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 72.50

FREIBURG (Opportunistic)

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 60.00

HAMELN (Opportunistic)

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 63.00

HENGELO (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 15.00

KASSEL/ALTENBAUNA (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 142.50

KASSEL/HENSCHEL (Primary)

Description: ARMORED VEHICLE FACTORY

Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th BG, 93rd BG, 389th BG, 392nd BG, 445th BG, 446th BG, 448th BG, 453rd BG, 458th BG, 466th BG, 467th BG, 489th BG, 491st Bomb Group, 492nd BG.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 326.00

Description: OIL REFINERY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 205.30

MAGDEBURG/BUCKAU (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 180.00

MAGDEBURG/ROTHENSEE(Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 130.00

MERSEBURG/LEUNA (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 34th BG, 94th BG, 96th Bomb Group, 100th BG, 385th BG, 388th BG, 390th BG, 447th BG, 452nd BG, 486th BG, 487th BG, 490th BG, 493rd BG

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 309.30

NORDHAUSEN (Opportunistic)

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 57.00

POLITZ (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 347.80

RUHLAND (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

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

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 147.50

ZWICKAU (Opportunistic)

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 150.00

ZWICKAU (Opportunistic)

Description: MOTOR VEHICLE FACTORY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 141.70

Connections

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-764355
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • 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: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39557480
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-26027
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Nevada Avenger
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hells Angels Out Of Chute 13, Grossly Inadequate
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
An airman of the 392nd Bomb Group with a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95012) nicknamed "Trips Daily" Image via John E Bode
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Trips Daily
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 577th Bomb Squadron
A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95183) nicknamed "Briney Marlin" of the 458th Bomb Group flies low over countryside.
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Briney Marlin
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Good Pickin
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th 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
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

"Attlebridge Arsenal" - John Woolnough
page 145

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

466th BG Historian

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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