8th Air Force 945

13 April 1945

Mission Details

NEUMUNSTER

Description: FREELANCE MISSION

Notes: A mix of 97 P-47s and P-51s fly a freelance mission in support of the bombers. Mix not given in available data.

NEUMUNSTER

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

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People

Elwood J Rosenbauer

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 356th Fighter Group 1st Scouting Force 361st Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-832699
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: 356FG, 361stFS and 1st Scouting Force

Leonard Streitfeld

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier / Navigator

Ernest H Treff

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 56th Fighter Group 61st Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12177819 / O-830360
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Aircraft

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Sources

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'.