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23 November 1944

Mission Details

DUISBURG

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

GELSENKIRCHEN

Description: SCREENING MISSION

GELSENKIRCHEN/NORDSTERN

Description: BENZOL OIL PLANT

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People

Aircraft

Nine men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of a military airplane. Five men standing to the rear and four men kneeling in front. Men are wearing cold-weather flying gear. There are canvas duffle bags on the ground in front of the men.

42-97960

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron

42-98000

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fightin' Hebe
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

43-37703

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Tremblin Gremlin II
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

43-37717

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Pro-Kid
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (DT-J, serial number 43-37971) of the 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group at Grafton Underwood, January 1945. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Jan, 1945. 384BG, 545BS. Source - Gus Radloff, Grafton Underwood, B-17. P11 March Flypast. P. 4.'

43-37971

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th 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'.