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1 March 1945
Family Archive
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
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34792971
- Highest Rank: Technician Fourth Grade
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 491st Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 35393626
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-824894
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36827855
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2045208
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lady Luck
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Alex
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Princess Pat, Hannah’s Children
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 569th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pauline
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Official Website of 385th Bomb Group Association Database-Missions
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.
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.
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'.