824
9 February 1945
Research 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"
Object Number - FRE 491 - Ground crew attend to a crashed P-51 Mustang nicknamed "Baby Jo" of the 357th Fighter Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: ' Lt Noel Breen ran out...
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
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Nose Gunner; Togglier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-700581
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14161865
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Baby Buggy II
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sweet Chariot
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Diabolical Angel
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Miss Gee Eyewanna Go Home
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th 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'.