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15 February 1945
media-35142.jpeg UPL 35142

https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/mission/275

Object Number - UPL 35142

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

BOHLEN

Description: OIL REFINERY

COTTBUS

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

Mission Statistics

  • Aircraft sent: 38
  • Aircraft effective: 35
  • Aircraft missing in action: 2
  • Aircraft damaged beyond repair: 2

DRESDEN

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Description: CANAL

LINGEN

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

MAGDEBURG

Description: OIL REFINERY

MUNSTER

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

QUACKENBRUCK

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

RHEINE

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

RUHLAND

Description: OIL REFINERY

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People

Billy Chat Ferguson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39552583
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Flight Engineer

Donald Bankie Flygstad

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-2064709
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Neil M Gobrecht

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot/Pilot

Robert Stanley Griffin

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-779834
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Gene Carlton Grime

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19087003
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Aircraft

42-31891

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Shape
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
The nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Mary Alice" of the 401st Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '401. Unknown. C2. '

42-31983

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mary Alice
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron

42-38013

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Nevada Avenger
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
A bomber crew of the 458th Bomb Group with their B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51110) nicknamed "Top O' the Mark.' The crew are: (back row, left to right) Carl Johnson - Nose Gunner, Chuck Frazer - Gunner, Charles Gretz - Top Turret Gunner, "Bubba" Monroe - Co-Pilot, (front row, left to right) Dick Eselgroth - Navigator, Al Miller - Bombardier, Billy Duke - Pilot "Luke" Lucas - Radio Operator, Baldamore Garcia - Engineer, "Pan" Panarese - Tail Gunner . Image via RM Eselgroth. Written on slide casing: '

42-51110

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Top O The Mark
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 752nd Bomb Squadron 754th Bomb Squadron

42-97093

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Ill Get By
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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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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