Sabatine Branco
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator; Waist Gunner | 487th Bomb Group
Flew 34 combat missions from 1/8/45 to 4/21/45. Most of them in a B-17G 'Dinah-Mite' #44-8694.
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18 January 1945
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Kentucky Winner (42-102481) was flown only once on 18 Jan 1945 by Lester Wise, pilot, on a mission from Great Ashfield to Kaiserslautern. He flew several different b-17s before and after that mission.
Official description
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Description
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Mission details
1. KAISERSLAUTERN
Description
MARSHALLING YARDS
Aircraft type
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Notes
Bad weather hampers operations. Most of the bombers are diverted to bases on the Continent after the raid because of heavy clouds.
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Service
People
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Roy Frawley
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 486th Bomb Group
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Jack Q Means
Military | Co-Pilot | 385th Bomb Group
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Lester Wise
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 385th Bomb Group
Lester Allen Wise was born June 27, 1922 and grew up on a farm in Midland, Michigan as an only child, son of Carry Addison Wise and Dora Ethel Sellers. ...
Aircraft
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42-102481 Kentucky Winner
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 7/3/44; Kearney 4/5/44; Grenier 19/4/44; Assigned 550BS/385BG [SG-P] Gt Ashfield 20/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 18/3/45 with Bill Cocker, Bill Chaney, Harold Morthorst, Bob Crider, Ellis Murray, Vince Figini, Joe Ryan, Harry...
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 02 July 2017 02:54:59 | Virginiawise50 | Changes to person associations |
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Virginia Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise who flew as pilot on this mission with Jack Q. Means as co-pilot |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 01 July 2017 19:50:50 | Virginiawise50 | Changes to person associations and aircraft associations |
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Virginia wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise B-17 (42-102481) pilot, 8th Air Force, 385th Bomb Group flew on this mission from Great Ashfield, England to Kaiserslauten, 18 Jan 1945. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:43:09 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| 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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