409

13 June 1944

Mission Details

DREUX (Primary)

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 116 T

EVEREUX/FAUVILLE (Primary)

Description: AIRFIELD

Notes: Bad weather continues to hamper operations and large-scale bombing of any priority targets in Germany is curtailed. Also on this date the first on many V-1 Flying Bombs lands in SOUTH England.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 89 T

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 90T

Connections

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People

Edwin M Dexter

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-709309
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Richard D Eide

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-701469
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Thomas H Fitzgerald

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-807825
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Milton K Goodridge

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 856th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-807820
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Melvin Leroy Hedrick

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34507515
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Flexible Gunner/ Togglier

Aircraft

42-102518

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Damn Yankee
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron

42-102617

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Devil's Brat
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

42-102933

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Gremlins Hotel : Queenie
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron

42-102959

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 544th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group

42-107057

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Spirit of 96
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron

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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'.