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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lucky Lady
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Busy Buzzard
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Related media
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 40382
- Description: Overall Missions Map for the 493rd BG - USAAF Station 152 -Debach, UK noting missions flown by the Lt Bernard E Vaughan Crew
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'.