449
1 July 1944Mission Details
Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES
Notes: The bomber force was scheduled to hit 14 V-weapon sites but is recalled because of cloud cover. However, 3 squadrons of B-24s do not receive the message. Two of the squadrons abort based on decisions by the squadron leaders but one squadron proceeds to bomb this V-Weapon site. Only 486th Bomb Group manages to bomb.
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 19.5 T
Connections
See how this entry relates to other items in the archive by exploring the connections below.
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16092205
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Nose Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 93rd Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 834th Bomb Squadron 835th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35092141
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer / Top Turret Gunner / Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Go Getter | Fate's Fortune
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group 789th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Screw Ball
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group 788th Bomb Squadron 789th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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'.