8th Air Force 935
9 April 1945
Personal collection
Object Number - UPL 35160
Description
"Heavy bombers of the 8th Air Force once more struck at the source of German air power when over 1,250 Fortresses and Liberators, protected by approximately 750 fighters, hammered ten airfields in the vicinity of Munich, besides attacking an oil depot and explosives stores in the same are. All the airfields are believed to be bases for jet-propelled fighters, which gave the heavies their sources of trouble during renewed aerial opposition over last weekend"
"Lancasters of the RAF, some of them carrying 11-ton Town-Busters, bombed U-boat pens at Hamburg and an oil storage depot in the same same city."
Mission Details
Description: SCOUTING MISSION
FRUSTENFELDBRUCK
Description: AIRFIELD
INGOLSTADT
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
LANDSBURG
Description: AIRFIELD
LANDSBURG EAST
Description: LANDING GROUND
LECHFELD
Description: AIRFIELD
LEIPHEIM
Description: AIRFIELD
MEMINGEN
Description: AIRFIELD
MUNICH/REIM
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Aircraft sent: 38
- Aircraft effective: 38
- Aircraft damaged: 8
NEUBURG
Description: AIRFIELD
NEUBURG
Description: OIL DEPOT
OBERPFAFFENHOFEN
Description: AIRFIELD
SCHLEISSHEIM
Description: AIRFIELD
WOLFRATSHAUSEN
Description: MUNITIONS PLANT
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 31st Fighter Group 55th Fighter Group 56th Fighter Group 343rd Fighter Squadron 62nd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32473483 / O-811298
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- 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: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2057209
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 3rd Air Division 13th Combat Bomb Wing 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
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: Worry Bird/Miss Bea Haven
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
Revisions
owner of original news paper article pertaining to this particular date
Virginia Wise, eldest child of LesterAllen Wise, pilot of B-17 (44-6569), 8th Air Force, 585th Bomb Group, flew on this mission from Great Ashfield, England to Schleissheim, 9 Dec 1945, the last of his 31 missions
Associated Media based on images associated with mission in Freeman, 'The Mighty Eighth War Diary'.
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'.
