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6 December 1944
media-22506.jpeg UPL 22506 Pauline Crew

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Object Number - UPL 22506 - Pauline Crew

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

BIELEFELD

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 59
  • Aircraft sent: 20
  • Aircraft effective: 16
  • Aircraft damaged: 2

HANNOVER

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

LOCKUM

Description: RAIL JUNCTION

MERSEBURG

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

MERSEBURG/LEUNA

Description: OIL REFINERY

Notes: A mix or 534 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.

MINDEN/MITTELLAND CANAL

Description: AQUEDUCT

Notes: Mix of 91 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.

Connections

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People

Charles W Utter

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-389151
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Bernard E Vaughan

  • 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

Roy C Vehlow

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Copilot

Richard H Warlick

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner / Top Turret Gunner / Flight Engineer

Raymond L Weeks

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Corporal (RAF)
  • Role/Job: Assts. Armorer & Gunner

Aircraft

42-97824

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
French prisoners of war await transport home in a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97931) nicknamed "Madame Queen" of the 401st Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'French POW's flown back to France after war. IN-Q then IW-A "Madame Queen".'

42-97931

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Madame queen
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

42-98000

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fightin' Hebe
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of a military airplane parked on grass. Six men standing to the rear and four men kneeling in front. Large canvas bags are on the ground.

42-98027

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Swamp Angel
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

43-37551

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

Related media

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Document 40382

  • 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

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

466th BG Archives - Report on Mission No. 150 - Bielefeld, Germany - 6 December 1944
NARA Research provided by Brad Sullivan
"Attlebridge Diaries" - John Woolnough, pages 212-213

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

466th BG Archives - Report on Mission No 150, Bielefeld, Germany - 6 December 1944
NARA Research provided by Brad Sullivan

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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