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5 January 1945
media-18304.jpeg UPL 18304 Strike Photo - Kirn, Germany - 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

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12120011
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron 703rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33507972 / O-2064220
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 383599659
  • Highest Rank: Technician Fourth Grade
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39146514
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 331st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-2059000
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Aircraft

Factory fresh B-17s
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Cover Girl
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Homesick Angel
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
Ground personnel of the 401st Bomb Group stand with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31662) nicknamed "Fancy Nancy IV" after fixing her engines. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Another famous Fort and her crew.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fancy Nancy IV
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Morning Star, Tail End Charlie
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Go Getter
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
Contributormarshaferraro
Changes
Sources

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.

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

Official Website of 385th Bomb Group Association Database-Missions

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

Official Website of 385th Bomb Group Association

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

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.

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

Virginia Wise, eldest daughter of Lester Allen Wise

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'.

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