8th Air Force 295
10 April 1944
Timothy Motz, from Pictorial History of the 447th Bombardment Group (H) https://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/41056
Object Number - UPL 44162 - 8th Air Force mission 295; Arnimswalde, Germany; April 11, 1944. 447th Bomb Group strike photo
Mission Details
BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
BERGEN OP ZOOM (Opportunistic)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
BOURGES (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD and AIRCRAFT FACTORIES
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 93rd Bomb Group, 389th Bomb Group, 392nd Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group, 448th Bomb Group, 453rd Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group. The 467th Bomb Group flies its first mission.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 490T HE 143T IB
BRUSSELS (Primary)
Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORIES
BRUSSELS/MELSBROEK (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: 457th BG MISSION NO. 24 - BRUSSELS-MIELSBROEK, BELGIUM 10 APRIL, 1944 The target was the Melsbroek Airdrome. It was situated on the northeast section of Brussels and was the home base of a Ju-88 bomber group. The 457th supplied eighteen aircraft flying the Wing's high box. Air Commander was Major Leroy Watson, with Lt. Belcher as pilot. Over Belgium and the target area, visibility was impededby a haze. Two 360 degree turns were made before bombs were dropped. The results were very good with three direct hits on Hangar No. 1, the Main Point of Impact (MPI). Flak was moderate but accurate, with all eighteen craft sustaining varying degrees of damage.
Description: AIRFIELD
DIEST/SCHAFFEN (Secondary)
Description: AIRFIELD
EVERE (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD and AIRCRAFT FACTORIES
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 92nd Bomb Group, 303rd Bomb Group, 305th Bomb Group, 306th Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Group, 379th Bomb Group, 381st Bomb Group, 401st Bomb Group, 457th Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 330.5T HE 199.5T IB
FLORENNES/JUZAINE (Secondary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 94th Bomb Group, 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group, 385th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group, 447th Bomb Group, 452nd Bomb Group,
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 310T HE 217T IB
Marquise / Mimoyecques, France
Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES
ORLEANS/BRICY (Secondary)
Description: AIRFIELD
ROMARANTIN (Secondary)
Description: AIRFIELD
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Bomb Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 448th Bomb Group 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19055027
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18187769
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-805776
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 711th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38367805
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 6149248
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Rum Pot II
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: West End
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Roarin Bill
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Mairsy Doats
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Old Ironsides
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Mission detail added courtesy of Diane Reese - http://www.457thbombgroup.org/Narratives/MA24.HTML
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'.