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2 March 1945Uploaded
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
BOHLEN
Description: GUN BATTERIES
BOHLEN
Description: OIL REFINERY
CHEMNITZ
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
COLOGNE
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
DRESDEN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
JOCKETA
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
MAGDEBURG/BUCKAU
Description: TANK FACTORY
MAGDEBURG/ROTHENSEE
Description: OIL REFINERY
Notes: A mix of 187 P-47s and P-51 provide escort. Mix not given in available data.
PENIG
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
ROSITZ
Description: OIL REFINERY
RUHLAND
Description: OIL REFINERY
SAALFELD
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-777097
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 02-068357
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12166145
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-712131
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Radar Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Damn Yankee
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Big Dog
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: D-Day Dottie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pretty Baby
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Doasy Doats
- Unit: Base Air Depot 1 398th Bomb Group 603rd Bomb Squadron 491st Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Virginia Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise, who was pilot on this mission with Jack Q. Means as co-pilot.
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 Dresden, 2 Mar 1945.
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, England to Dresden, 2 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'.