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: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-786366
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 493rd Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron 549th Bomb Squadron 551st Bomb Squadron 862nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15043109
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner / Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12083654, later 094-146426
- Highest Rank: Master Sergeant
- Role/Job: AAF Gunnery Instructor
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15108182 / O-65581
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot / Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Busy Buzzard
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Mrs Knobby
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 545th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group
Related videos and documents
- 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'.