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30 August 1944
media-25878.jpeg UPL 25878 Map of 8th Air Force mission 591 to Bremen on August 30, 1944. From the estate of Harold Motz, navigator on the Westrope crew, 708th squadron, 447th bomb group

Original map now in the collection of the Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton, Ohio. 447th Bomb Group collection

Timothy Motz

Object Number - UPL 25878 - Map of 8th Air Force mission 591 to Bremen on August 30, 1944. From the estate of Harold Motz, navigator on the Westrope crew, 708th squadron, 447th...

Description

End of Operation Overlord.

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 9 T

Bremen, Germany

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 753 T

KIEL (Primary)

Description: U-BOAT PENS

Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 92nd BG, 305th BG, 306th BG, 351st BG, 381st BG, 398th BG, 457th BG. 3rd Bomb Division was made up of B-17s is 94th BG, 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th BG, 385th BG, 388th BG, 390th BG, 447th BG, 452nd BG.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 690 T

Connections

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People

Melvin L Kirkpatrick

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Nose Gunner

Robert Peter Koehler

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 730th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-817334
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Willard James Lawrence

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Bombardier / Pilot / Comptroller

Morton Love

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Weldon Theis Martz

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33540568
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Flight Engineer

Aircraft

42-97206

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Woolf Pack
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 730th Bomb Squadron
A bomber crew of the 95th Bomb Group with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97232 ) nicknamed "Sandy's Refueling Boys", August 1944. Image via Albert Keeler, 95th Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '"Full House" crew. Left to right: ' Morrison, Keeler, Langford, Sherwood, Dancisin. "Government Property" (roll of toilet paper) SANDY'S REFUELING BOYS.'

42-97232

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: GI Issue : Sandy's Refueling Boys
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
The nose art of a B-17G Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97334) nicknamed "H-a-a-rd Luck!" of the 390th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '390.'

42-97334

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: H-A-A-RD LUCK!
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron

42-97376

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Aunt Callie's Baby aka She Fox aka Lucky Lady
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron

42-97383

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: N-Nan
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron

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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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