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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: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31311168
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33843958
- Highest Rank: Technician Fourth Grade
- Role/Job: Nose Gunner/Toggelier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2066200
- Highest Rank: Second 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: 305th Bomb Group 365th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-929877
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pleasure Bent
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Joyride : Big Chief Illiniwek
- Unit: 412th Bomb Squadron 95th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tagalong, Duke's Mixture
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Starduster
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sugar Jo
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th 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'.