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11 November 1944
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 794 - The B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-50468) nicknamed "Sleeping Dynamite" of the 93rd Bomb Group flies over countryside with a formation of fellow...
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
BOTTROP/WELHEIM
Description: OIL REFINERY
Notes: A mix of 98 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.
GELSENKIRCHEN/BUER
Description: OIL REFINERY
KOBLENZ
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
OBERLAHNSTEIN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: A mix of 170 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.
OBERLAHNSTEIN
Description: SCREENING MISSION
RECKLINGHAUSEN
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
RHEINE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39924401
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 41st Combat Bomb Wing 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0720009
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-822091
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 786th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-773464
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier/Pilotage Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 487th Bomb Group 493rd Bomb Group 861st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-816382
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Fightin' Hebe
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lucky Sherry : Temptation
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Alex
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pleasure Bent
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Associated Media based on images associated with missions in Freeman, The Mighty Eighth War Diary.
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'.