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5 March 1945Research on crash and pilot.
Aviation accidents UK for March 1945
Freeman's "The Mighty Eight War Diary"
Mission Details
CHEMNITZ
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
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: O-928692
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32931560
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 506th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-1313268
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Dear Mom II/Weary Wolf
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Bachelor's Bedlam : Bachelor's Club
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Supermouse
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Round Trip
- Unit: 339th Fighter Group 388th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
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'.