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1 March 1945
media-36530.jpeg UPL 36530 Report of Aircraft Accident March 1, 1945 Robert Bobby Keenan

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Object Number - UPL 36530 - Report of Aircraft Accident March 1, 1945

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

AUGSBURG

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

BRUCHSAL

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: 3 plants suspected of manufacturing parts for the Me-262 are included in the target list but could not be bomber due to cloud cover.

GOTTINGEN

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

HEIDELBERG

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

HEILBRONN

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

INGOLSTADT

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

NECKARSULM

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

REUTLINGEN

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

ULM

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: T-131707
  • Highest Rank: Flight Officer
  • 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: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36441410
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Aerial Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-712131
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Radar Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 752nd Bomb Squadron 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-433086
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-10706) nicknamed "Miss Bea Havin'" of the 388th Bomb Group flies over countryside. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Miss Bea Havin 2107062 M, 562 BS.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Worry Bird/Miss Bea Haven
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
Nine men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of a military airplane.  Five men standing to the rear and four men kneeling in front.
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Dark Angel
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Factory fresh B-17s
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Cover Girl
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Betty J.
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
Ground personnel of the 401st Bomb Group stand with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31662) nicknamed "Fancy Nancy IV" after fixing her engines. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Another famous Fort and her crew.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fancy Nancy IV
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

Official Website of 385th Bomb Group Association Database-Missions

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ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

Virginia Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise, B-17 (43-37736) pilot, 8th Air Force, 385th Bomb Group, flew on this mission from Great Ashfield, England to Ulm, 1 Mar 1945.

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

Virginia Wise, eldest daughter of Lester Allen Wise, who was. B-17 pilot (43-38736, Maid in America) of the 8th Air Force, 385th Bomb Group, on this mission to Ulm, 1 Mar 1944.

Date
Contributormaloons
Changes
Sources

Crew member added ( Greiner Crew)

Date
ContributorAAM
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'.

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