824
9 February 1945
Research on aircraft and pilot.
Little friends website : http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/357thfg.php?action=list_records&recs=50&…
Accident report
Freeman's "The Mighty Eighth War Diary"
Object Number - FRE 491 - Ground crew attend to a crashed P-51 Mustang nicknamed "Baby Jo" of the 357th Fighter Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: ' Lt Noel Breen ran out...
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
ARNSBERG
Description: RAIL VIADUCT
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: Mission #277 (379th BGS)- A. Edwards B-17 Crew: Mission City: Arnsberg Country: Germany Mission Target: Viaduct Aircraft: 44-8310 2/9/1945: Michael Rusnak, Harry Chaoona, Wm H. Melvin Jr., Janel D Hamilton, Wallace I Pfieffer, Billy C. Hulsey, Lester W Bohne and Alfred E Edwards Jr.
BIELEFELD/SCHILDESCHE
Description: RAIL VIADUCT
DULMEN
Description: OIL REFINERY
EISENBACH
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
EISENBACH
Description: MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
EISLEBEN
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
ERFURT
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
FULDA
Description: MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
GIESSEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
GOTTINGEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
JENA
Description: MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
Description: OIL REFINERY
MAGDEBURG
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
MAGDEBURG/ROTHENSEE
Description: OIL REFINERY
Germany
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Notes: MONTESADA
MUNSTER
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
PADERBORN/ALTENBEKEN
Description: RAIL VIADUCT
QUACKENBRUCK
Description: AIRFIELD
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
WEIMAR
Description: MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-928692
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2015293
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 388th Bomb Group 44th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17032453
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 423rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37726752
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 506th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Chute The Works
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Aw Come On
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hula Girl, Maid To Order
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lady Vivian
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th 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'.