832
15 February 1945
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
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-770817
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-711277
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Air Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron 329th Bomb Squadron 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0751887
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot/Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Baby Buggy II
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sweet Chariot
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Diabolical Angel
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Dawnbusters
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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Changes
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'.