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6 January 1945

Mission Details

Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

ANNWEILER

Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

BONN

Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE/RHINE

COLOGNE/KALK

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

COLOGNE/N HIGHWAY BRIDGE

Description: HIGHWAY BRIDGE

COLOGNE/S RAIL BRIDGE

Description: RAIL BRIDGE

KAISERSLAUTERN

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

KEMPERNICH

Description: COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

KOBLENZ/MOSEL

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

KUSEL

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

LUDWIGSHAVEN

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

SEIGEN

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: 30 of 60 P-47s attack the marshalling yard at Siegen, Germany. No losses

WORMS

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34725400
  • Role/Job: Toglier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13178814 / O-716614
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37705979
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12077778
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator-Mechanic-Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Dynamite John
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lucky Lady : Screaming Eagle
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Farmer's Daughter
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hard Seventeen, Hard Luck
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 447th Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: D-Day Dottie
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

Official Website of 385th Bomb Group Association. Database-Missions

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
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Virginia Wise, eldest child of Lester Allen Wise, B-17(44-6521) pilot, 8th Air Force, 385th Bomb Group flew on this mission from Great Ashfield, England to Worms, 6 Jan 1945.

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

Virginia Wise, eldest daughter of Lester Allen Wise

Date
ContributorVirginiawise50
Changes
Sources

Virginia Wise, eldest daughter of Lester Allen Wise

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
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'.