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9 February 1945Research on aircraft and pilot.
Little friends website : http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/357thfg.php?action=list_records&recs=50&…
Accident report
Freeman's "The Mighty Eighth War Diary"
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
ARNSBERG
Description: RAIL VIADUCT
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: Mission #277 (379th BGS)- A. Edwards B-17 Crew: Mission City: Arnsberg Country: Germany Mission Target: Viaduct Aircraft: 44-8310 2/9/1945: Michael Rusnak, Harry Chaoona, Wm H. Melvin Jr., Janel D Hamilton, Wallace I Pfieffer, Billy C. Hulsey, Lester W Bohne and Alfred E Edwards Jr.
BIELEFELD/SCHILDESCHE
Description: RAIL VIADUCT
DULMEN
Description: OIL REFINERY
EISENBACH
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
EISENBACH
Description: MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
EISLEBEN
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
ERFURT
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
FULDA
Description: MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
GIESSEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
GOTTINGEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
JENA
Description: MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
Description: OIL REFINERY
MAGDEBURG
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
MAGDEBURG/ROTHENSEE
Description: OIL REFINERY
Germany
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Notes: MONTESADA
MUNSTER
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
PADERBORN/ALTENBEKEN
Description: RAIL VIADUCT
QUACKENBRUCK
Description: AIRFIELD
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
WEIMAR
Description: MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12120011
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 383599659
- Highest Rank: Technician Fourth Grade
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-712131
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Radar Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Shape
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th 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: Nevada Avenger
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hells Angels Out Of Chute 13, Grossly Inadequate
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th 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'.