741
6 December 1944
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
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-701984
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron 833rd Bomb Squadron 834th Bomb Squadron 835th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-764539
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Flight Commander
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14161865
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier, Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tremblin Gremlin II
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Satan's Chillen
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Pro-Kid
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Big Chief
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lady Luck
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th 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
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
466th BG Archives - Report on Mission No 150, Bielefeld, Germany - 6 December 1944
NARA Research provided by Brad Sullivan
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'.