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5 January 1945
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Object Number - UPL 18304 - Strike Photo - Kirn, Germany - 5 January 1945 466th BG
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
BURG
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
COCHEM
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
COCHEM
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
FRANKFURT
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
HANAU
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
HEILBRONN
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
HEIMBACH
Description: RAILROAD
KAISERSLAUTERN
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
KALL
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
KIRM
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
KOBLENZ
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
MECHERNICH
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
NEUBRUCKE, GERMANY
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
NEUNKIRCHEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
NEUSTADT
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Description: AIRFIELD
NIEDERMENDIG
Description: AIRFIELD
PIRMASENS
Description: RAILROAD
PRONSFELD
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
PRUM
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
SOBERNHEIM
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
ST INGBERT
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
WAXWEILER
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
WAXWEILER
Description: COMUNNICATIONS CENTER
Wetteldorf, Germany
Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36563521
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37672668
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator/Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 729th Bomb Squadron 730th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Counter Measures/waist gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th 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
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Doasy Doats
- Unit: Base Air Depot 1 398th Bomb Group 603rd Bomb Squadron 491st Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Dark Angel
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Personal list of 30 missions Lloyd C. Kenagy participated in with the 401st Bomb Group 613th Squadron between Aug 1, 1944 and April 11, 1945.
Official Website of 385th Bomb Group Association Database-Missions
Virginia Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise B-17 pilot, 8th Air Force, 385th Bomb Group, flew on this mission from Great Ashfield, England to Kaiserschlautern, 5 Jan 1945.
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'.