8th Air Force 291
8 April 1944
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 796 - A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-110081) nicknamed "Able Mable" of the 93rd Bomb Group, in flight 10 April 1944. First handwritten caption on...
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
ACHMER (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 94th Bomb Group, 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group, 385th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group, 447th Bomb Group, 452nd Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 457T HE
Brunswick, Germany
Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORIES
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th Bomb Group, 93rd Bomb Group, 389th Bomb Group, 392nd Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group,453rd Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group. This formation encountered heavy attacks by Luftwaffe fighters (exactly what the Allied planners had hoped). The bomber gunners took a good toll of the attacking fighters, but experienced heavy bomber losses.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 622.7T HE 160.7T IB
HANDORF (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
HESEPE (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
LANGENHAGEN (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
OLDENBURG (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 381st Bomb Group. Most of the force of 1st Bomb Division was cancelled due to fog at their bases.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 110.5T HE 37.5T IB
QUAKENBRUCK (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
RHEINE (Opportunistic)
Description: AIRFIELD
Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORIES
Description: AIRFIELD
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O 801537
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Bomb Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 448th Bomb Group 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-809318
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Bomb Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 448th Bomb Group 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19055027
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18187769
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11 115 478
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Airplane Mechanic Gunner 748 - Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Olin's 69ers, Gremlin Gus II
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Spook Six
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 457th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lucky Strike
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Associated Media based on images associated with missions in Freeman, The Mighty Eighth War Diary.
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'.