8th Air Force 959
18 April 1945
Object Number - UPL 7273 - Strike Photo Passau, Germany 18 April 1945
Mission Details
FREISING
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
KOLLIN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
NEUBURG AN DER DONAU
Description: OIL DEPOT
Notes: Escort mission. 101 of 103 P-51s escort Ninth AF B-26s. They claim 1-0-2 aircraft.
PASSAU
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: A mix of 240 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data. 29 466th BG attacked this target from 18,500 feet.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 372.3
- Aircraft sent: 196
- Aircraft effective: 166
PASSAU
Description: RAIL JUNCTION
PILSEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
ROSENHEIM
Description: ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS
STRAUBING
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
TRAUNSTEIN
Description: ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS
TRAUNSTEIN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: AF 34 725 400
- Highest Rank: Chief Master Sergeant
- Role/Job: Toglier in WWII; Aircraft Maintenance until 1967 retirement
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12120324 / O-835109
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36864214
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2057209
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Dynamite John
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Farmer's Daughter
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron 615th 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: The Doodle Bug
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Worry Bird/Miss Bea Haven
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
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'.
