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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

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Aircraft

42-31222

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lazy Daisy
  • Unit: 546th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31435) nicknamed "West's End" of the 384th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'West's End, 231435. Chin turret removed 6/1/44. Guns fired by pilot. A/C belly landed 6/7/44 after raid in southern England. George F. Sheehan Jr. Sheehan print. 6/7/44 X, 250.'

42-31435

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

42-31484

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mairsy Doats
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron

42-37758

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

42-37785

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Little Barney
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group Base Air Depot 1 384th Bomb Group 544th 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'.