674

12 October 1944
media-26197.jpeg UPL 26197 Map for 8th Air Force Mission #674 to Bremen on October 12, 1944. From the estate of Harold Motz, navigator on the Westrope crew, 708th squadron, 447th bomb group

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 26197 - Map for 8th Air Force Mission #674 to Bremen on October 12, 1944. From the estate of Harold Motz, navigator on the Westrope crew, 708th squadron,...

Description

Black Week

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 3.00

Bremen, Germany

Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORIES

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

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 625.00

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 12.80

Osnabrück

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th BG, 93rd BG, 389th BG, 392nd BG, 445th BG, 446th BG, 453rd BG, 458th BG, 466th BG, 467th BG, 489th BG, 491st Bomb Group, 492nd BG. 448th Bomb Group stands down. The primary targets for this mission were Vechta, Achmer, Rheine & Varrelbusch, but weather prevents bombing. PATHFINDER (PFF) means were used to hit these secondary targets.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 692.60

Connections

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 786th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34116224 / O-747210
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group Headquarters (96th Bomb Group)
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Commander
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-821248
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Go Getter
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Silver Slipper
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-37882) of the 95th Bomb Group landing at Colorado in October 1943. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-17G-15-DL Denver, Colorada, October 1943.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hard Time : A-Good-Bett : Blues in the Reich
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: ETO Happy : Pregnant Goose : Dollys Daughter
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Off Limit's Again
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

"Attlbebridge Arsenal" - John Woolnough
page 132

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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