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27 August 1944

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 10 T

HUSUM Airfield NW Germany on Danish Border (Opportunistic)

Description: AIRFIELD

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of B-17s is 94th BG, 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th BG, 385th BG, 388th BG, 390th BG, 447th BG, 452nd BG.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 11.5 T
  • People killed in action: 9
  • Aircraft missing in action: 1

FLENSBURG (Opportunistic)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 2.5 T

Connections

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People

Clayton Robert Christiansen

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37308723
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Clarence C Clandellyn

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16092205
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Robert H Collins

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 851st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-704578
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Navigator / Statistics

Richard H Douglas

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 773315
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
The insignia of the 832nd Bomb Squadron, 486th Bomb Group.

W J Douglas

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Aircraft

42-31760

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Ikky Poo
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 561st Bomb Squadron

42-31867

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Go Getter
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron

42-31887

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Big Casino
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
A B-17G Flying Fortress (ET-B, serial number 42-31989) of the 336th Bomb Squadron, 95th Bomb Group that has crash-landed 1 April 1944. Official caption on image: "569(44). 4-1-44. Hon. Crash Landing Damage. B-17G, 42-31989. AM-FS..."

42-31989

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Spam Can : Black Magic : Shady Lady
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 535th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-37882) of the 95th Bomb Group landing at Colorado in October 1943. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-17G-15-DL Denver, Colorada, October 1943.'

42-37882

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hard Time : A-Good-Bett : Blues in the Reich
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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MACR 8458

Date
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Family and MACR 8458

Date
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Correction of airfield from Ausum (wrong in MACR) to Husum Airfield - which lies Southwest of Sylt on German-danish Border on the North Sea.

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
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'.