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11 May 1944Timothy Motz, from Pictorial History of the 447th Bombardment Group (H) https://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/41056
Mission Details
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 19 T HE
BELFORT (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 82.5 T HE
CAEN (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 2.5 T HE
CHAUMONT (Opportunistic)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 60 T HE
CHAUMONT (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: Faulty navigation causes 92nd Combat Bombardment Wing to not find target.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 0.00
EPINAL (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 168 T HE
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 6 T HE
MULHOUSE (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: The single B-24 MIA was from the 487th Bomb Group and was piloted by LT COL Beirne LAY, Jr., a prominent Hollywood screen writer. LT COL Lay managed to evade capture. After the war he returned to Hollywood and wrote the screenplay for the famous movie "Twelve O'Clock High" starring Gregory Peck. 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th Bomb Group, 93rd Bomb Group, 389th Bomb Group, 392nd Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group, 447th Bomb Group, 453rd Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group, 492nd Bomb Group, 486th Bomb Group, 487th Bomb Group. The 492nd Bomb Group flies its first mission.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 337 T HE
ORLEANS/BRICY (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 39 T HE
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Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Heaven Can Wait
- Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 856th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Say When
- Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron 859th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Night Knight
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 566th Bomb Squadron 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron 856th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Herk's Jerks, Sweet and Lowdown
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 567th Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron 858th Bomb Squadron 856th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron 492nd Bomb Group 856th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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'.