8th Air Force 935

9 April 1945
media-35160.jpeg UPL 35160

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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

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 20641069
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Togglier
  • 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: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier / Chin Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 773315
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 833rd Bomb Squadron
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Homesick Angel
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Morning Star, Tail End Charlie
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
The nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Mary Alice" of the 401st Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '401. Unknown. C2. '
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mary Alice
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Shark Tooth
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lilly Belle
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 331st Bomb Squadron 398th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron

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ContributorFrankM
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ContributorVirginiawise50
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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

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ContributorEmily
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Associated Media based on images associated with mission in Freeman, 'The Mighty Eighth War Diary'.

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ContributorAAM
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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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