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13 January 1945By zooming in to the plaque in the top middle of the frame, it reads 355th Fighter Group.
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Description: FIGHTER SWEEPS
Notes: A mix of 102 P-47s and P-51s fly a freelance fighter sweep in support of the bombers. Mix not given in available data.
BISCHOFFSHEIM
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
EUSKIRCHEN
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
GERMERSHEIM
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
KAISERSLAUTERN
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
MAINZ
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
MAINZ
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
MAINZ/GUSTAVSBURG
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
MANNHEIM
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
MAXIMILIANSAU
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
RUDESHEIM
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
WORMS
Description: RAIL BRIDGE
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 487th Bomb Group 839th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator; Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- 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: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38603844
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34799024
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Fancy Nancy IV
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Morning Star, Tail End Charlie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Shape
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Mary Alice
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Shark Tooth
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Associated Media based on images associated with mission 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'.