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10 January 1945
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Object Number - UPL 13707 - 42-97521 JD-H, 'THE SAINT', 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group. Forced landing on the continent, 10 January 1945 - Salvaged.
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
BELECKE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
BONN/HANGELAR
Description: AIRFIELD
COLOGNE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
COLOGNE/DEUTZ
Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE
COLOGNE/GEREON
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
COLOGNE/HOHENZOLLERN
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
COLOGNE/OSTHEIM
Description: AIRFIELD
COLOGNE/RODENKIRCHEN
Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE
Notes: A mix of 123 P-47s and P51s fly a freelance sweep to cover the bombers. Mix not given in available data. However they have claims as stated. 137 of 152 P-51s fly escort but have no claims.
COLOGNE/SOUTH
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
DASBURG
Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE
DUISEBURG
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
DUREN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
DUSSELDORF
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
EUSKIRCHEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
EUSKIRCHEN/ODENDORF
Description: AIRFIELD
GYMNICH
Description: AIRFIELD
KARLSRUHE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
NEUSTADT
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: Fighter-bomber mission
OBERKASSEL
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
PRUM
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
SCHONBERG
Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE
STEINBRUCK
Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE
WEWELER
Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37672668
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator/Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 02-068357
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12166145
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 849th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2063355
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Damn Yankee
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Ol' Faithful
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st 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: Big Dog
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: D-Day Dottie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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'.