8th Air Force 576FE

26 August 1944

Mission Details

DULMEN

Description: FIGHTER ESCORT

Notes: Specific units not correlated in source data.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

GELSENKIRCHEN

Description: FIGHTER ESCORT

Notes: Specific units not correlated in source data.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

LUDWIGSHAVEN

Description: FIGHTER ESCORT

Notes: Specific units not correlated in source data. Claims are all on the ground.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

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People

Seward M Meintsma

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-705752
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Melvin Donald Westbrook

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-701984
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

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Sources

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'.