8th Air Force 954
16 April 1945
Object Number - UPL 19248 - Strike Photo - Landshut M/Y - 16 April 1945 466th BG
Mission Details
LANDSHUT
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: A mix of 299 P-47s and P-51s escort this raid. Mix not given in available data. All fighter claims are ground kills. The 78th FIGHTER GROUP, flying P-47s, sets the record for 8th AF ground kills on this mission with 135.
REGENSBURG
Description: FREELANCE MISSION
Notes: 286 of 298 P-51s fly a freelance mission in support of the bombers. They attack over 40 landing grounds in Germany and Czechoslovakia. They claim 1-0-1 aircraft in the air and 410-0-198 on the ground.
REGENSBURG
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
REGENSBURG EAST
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
REGENSBURG WEST
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
STRAUBING
Description: RAILROAD BRIDGE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13178814 / O-716614
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator, Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail 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: D-Day Dottie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Cover Girl
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Morning Star, Tail End Charlie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
The personal collection of Lt. Billy J. Murray
The personal collection of Lt. Billy J. Murray
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'.
