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6 January 1945Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
ANNWEILER
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
BONN
Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE/RHINE
COLOGNE/KALK
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
COLOGNE/N HIGHWAY BRIDGE
Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE
COLOGNE/S RAIL BRIDGE
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
KAISERSLAUTERN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
KEMPERNICH
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
KOBLENZ/MOSEL
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
KUSEL
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
LUDWIGSHAVEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
SEIGEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: 30 of 60 P-47s attack the marshalling yard at Siegen, Germany. No losses
WORMS
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: AF 34 725 400
- Highest Rank: Chief Master Sergeant
- Role/Job: Toglier in WWII; Aircraft Maintenance until 1967 retirement
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13178814 / O-716614
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37705979
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12077778
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator-Mechanic-Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Dynamite John
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lucky Lady aka Screaming Eagle
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Farmer's Daughter
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hard Seventeen, Hard Luck
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 447th Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: D-Day Dottie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Official Website of 385th Bomb Group Association. Database-Missions
Virginia Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise, B-17(44-6521) pilot, 8th Air Force, 385th Bomb Group flew on this mission from Great Ashfield, England to Worms, 6 Jan 1945.
Virginia Wise, eldest daughter of Lester Allen Wise
Virginia Wise, eldest daughter of Lester Allen Wise
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'.