865
5 March 1945
Research on crash and pilot.
Aviation accidents UK for March 1945
Freeman's "The Mighty Eight War Diary"
Object Number - FRE 586 - A crashed Mosquito (serial number NS651) of the 25th Bomb Group/654th Bomb Squadron at Watton, 5 March 1945. Official caption printed on image:...
Mission Details
CHEMNITZ
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
FULDA
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
HAMBURG/HARBURG
Description: OIL REFINERY
Kreuztal, Germany
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: Fighter-bomber mission
PLAUEN
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12177287
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Togglier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 729th Bomb Squadron 730th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Counter Measures/waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron 703rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33507972 / O-2064220
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 752nd Bomb Squadron 755th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-433086
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 730th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-760834
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot/Element Leader (WWII); Pilot (Transport Command)
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Midge
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Worry Bird/Miss Bea Haven
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 506th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Top O The Mark
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 752nd Bomb Squadron 754th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Maiden America
Revisions
Official Website of 385th Bomb Group Association Database-Missions
Virginia Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise, B-17 (43-38736) pilot, 8th Air Force, 385th Bomb Group flew on this mission from Great Ashfield to Chemnitz, 5 Mar 1945.
Virginia Wise, eldest daughter of Lester Allen Wise, who was the pilot of a B-17 with the 8th Air Force, 385th Bomb Group on this mission to Chemnitz, 5 Mar 1945
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'.
