8th Air Force 913
25 March 1945
25 April 1945 466th Bomb Group collection
466th BG Archives
Object Number - UPL 19129 - Strike Photo - Hitzaker, Germany - Oil Depot 25 April 1945
Mission Details
Description: SCOUTING MISSION
BUCKEN
Description: OIL DEPOT
EHMEN
Description: OIL DEPOT
Notes: A mix of 223 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data. 737 B-17s are also despatched to hit oil targets but bad weather during assembly and the increasing possibility of adverse conditions over the purposed targets causes the raids to be cancelled.
HITZACKER
Description: OIL DEPOT
SCHMALGE
Description: MUNITIONS DUMP
Notes: Fighter-bomber mission.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 7th Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Gunner (tail)
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31298209
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: H2X Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-835242
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 491st Bomb Group 855th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-831252
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
Revisions
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'.