8th Air Force 954
16 April 1945
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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
REGENSBURG WEST
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
STRAUBING
Description: RAILROAD BRIDGE
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 39950822
- Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
- Role/Job: Aerial Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-785510
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 351st Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-832905
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 457th Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 59462580
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: B-17G Tail Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Little Cinder
- Unit: 547th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Peaslee's Payoff
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Fast Company
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tu Yung Tu
- Unit: 410th Bomb Squadron 94th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
Related media
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53403
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 250, 16 Apr 1945, Regensburg, Germany
Revisions
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'.