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25 October 1944Elmo Maiden Crew
466th BG - 786th BS
Standing Left to Right: Bernard M. Atkins (TG), Vernon R. Hayden (WG), William R. Hoopes (B), Gustave J. Roussel (E), Guerino G. Petti (N), Herbert Rosenkoff (CP), William A. Thomason (TT), Elmo Maiden (P), Kenneth W. Chester (NG), Joseph R. Zebrowski (R/O)
B-24J-5-DT #42-51532 Code: U8-W
Photo taken on 27 December 1944 after crash landing at an airfield in Belgium.
Attlebridge Arsenal - Brassfield & Wassom
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
GELSENKIRCHEN/NORDSTERN
Description: OIL REFINERY
Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 54.125
- Aircraft sent: 36
- Aircraft effective: 36
- Aircraft damaged: 5
GRONUA
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
HAMBURG/HARBURG
Description: OIL REFINERY
HAMBURG/RHENANIA
Description: OIL REFINERY
HAMM
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
MUNSTER
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
NEUMUNSTER
Description: AIRFIELD
SCHOLVEN/BUER
Description: OIL REFINERY
UTERSUM
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 192075?6
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner/Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19078489
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-795809
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-758719
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lilly Belle
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 331st Bomb Squadron 398th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Ill Get By
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Paper Doll
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Silver Queen
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Good Pickin
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
466th BG Archives - Report on Mission No. 131 - Gelsenkirchen, Germany 25 October 1944
466th BG Archives - Report on Mission No. 131, Gelsenkirchen, Germany October 25, 1944
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'.