8th Air Force 928
5 April 1945
384thbombgroup.com
Object Number - UPL 12949 - 44-8430 SO-, RECALL, 547th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group. Landed at Airfield A-87 (Charleroi, Belgium) after substantial damage from mid-air...
Mission Details
BAYREUTH
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
BAYREUTH
Description: MUNITIONS DUMP
FURTH
Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORY
FURTH
Description: AMMUNITION DUMP
FURTH/UNTERSCHLAUERSBACH
Description: AIRFIELD
GRAFENWOHR
Description: MUNITIONS DUMP
INGOLSTADT
Description: MUNITIONS DUMP
INGOLSTADT
Description: MUNITIONS PLANT
NURNBERG
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
NURNBERG
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
NURNBERG SOUTH
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
PLAUEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: A mix of 280 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.
WEIDEN
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38630294
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12120324 / O-835109
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12077778
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator-Mechanic-Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36864214
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Diana Queen Of The Chase
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Dynamite John
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Farmer's Daughter
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: D-Day Dottie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Homesick Angel
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Virginia a Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise, who flew as pilot on this mission with Jack Q. Means as co-pilot.
Virginia Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise, B-17 (43-39056) pilot 8thAir Force, 385th Bomb Group, who flew on mission from Great Ashfield, England to Unterschlauterbach, 5 Apr 1945
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'.
