8th Air Force 906
22 March 1945
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Object Number - UPL 19247 - Strike Photo - Kitzingen Airfield - 22 March 1945 466th BG
Mission Details
Description: ESCORT MISSION
Notes: 19 of 22 P-51s escort 19 of 22 F-5s on a photo recon mission over Germany and claim 11-1-3 Luftwaffe aircraft
AHLHORN
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: This is a continuation of preparations for the Rhine River crossing.
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
BOTTROP
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
DORSTEN
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
FELDHAUSEN NORTH
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
FELDHAUSEN SOUTH
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
FRANKFURT/RHEIN MAIN
Description: AIRFIELD
GERESHEIM
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
GIEBELSTADT
Description: AIRFIELD
HINSBECK
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
KITZINGEN
Description: AIRFIELD
MULHEIM
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
OLDENBURG
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
RATINGEN
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
SCHWAB HALL
Description: AIRFIELD
WESTERHOLT
Description: TROOP CONCENTRATIONS
WURZBURG
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: T-131707
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 3rd Air Division 13th Combat Bomb Wing 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 833rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2009072
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot/Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Go Getter
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Shark Tooth
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Worry Bird : Voan : Snuffy
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 711th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hell's Messenger
- Unit: 2nd Strategic Air Depot 364th Fighter Group 544th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Top O The Mark
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 752nd Bomb Squadron 754th 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'.