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30 May 1944Timothy Motz, from Pictorial History of the 447th Bombardment Group (H) https://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/41056
Description
Mission #3. Same target as before. A piece of flak broke the pilots windshield. No-one hurt.
Mission Details
Description: BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 12.5 T
BRUSSELS/SCHAERBECK (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 115 T
DESSAU (Primary)
Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORIES
Notes: This element concentrates on the German aircraft industry. 1st Bomb Division was made up of 91st Bomb Group, 303rd Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Group, 379th Bomb Group, 381st Bomb Group, 384th Bomb Group, 398th Bomb Group, 401st Bomb Group, 457th Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 190 T
DIEPHOLZ (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 103.2 T
HALBERSTADT (Primary)
Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORIES
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 145 T
MUNSTER/HANDORF (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 34th Bomb Group, 388 Bomb Group, 489th Bomb Group. The 489th Bomb Group files its first mission and sustains its first loss.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 132.8 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 3 T
OLDENBURG (Primary)
Description: AVIATION DEPOT
Notes: This element concentrates on the German aircraft industry. 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th Bomb Group, 93rd Bomb Group, 389th Bomb Group, 392 Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group, 448th Bomb Group, 453rd Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group, 492nd Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 379 T
OSCHERSLEBEN (Primary)
Description: AIRCRAFT FACTORIES
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: 457th BG - MISSION NO. 55 - OSCHERSLEBEN, GERMANY 30 MAY, 1944 For this mission the 457th had to penetrate deep into Germany for the fourth successive day. The target was the FW 190 aircraft assembly plant. The entire Eighth Air Force sent aircraft to similar type facilities to emphasize the determined effort to eliminate fighter plane production in Germany. The Group provided eighteen ships for the high box of the 94th Combat Wing, fifth in the Division formation. Major William F. Smith was Air Commander, and Captain Clarence E. Schuchmann was pilot. Because of the concentration of bombers in the area, the 94th Combat Wing was forced to attempt a bomb run on a different heading. This change of plan, together with a faulty gyro, created problems causing a 360 degree turn to be made. Bomb results were poor for the lead box. While the Wing was rallying, about thirty Me-109s attacked the lead and low boxes and shot down two craft from other groups. Only one pass was made by the enemy fighters on ' the high box. Flak encountered was moderate and inaccurate, and there Was an absence of flak over the target area.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 118 T
PAS-DE-CALAIS
Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 320 T
RHEIMS (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 94th Bomb Group, 95th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group, 385th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group, 447th Bomb Group, 452nd Bomb Group, 486th Bomb Group, 487th Bomb Group. 3rd Bomb Division was made up of split into three elements: Reims/Troyes; Brussels; Pas de Calais
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 181.5 T
ROTENBURG (Primary)
Description: AVIATION DEPOT
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 428 T
TROYES (Primary)
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 179.5 T
Description: AVIATION DEPOT
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 192.8 T
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-803518
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Nose Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 834th Bomb Squadron 835th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35092141
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer / Top Turret Gunner / Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Puddles
- Unit: 3rd Bomb Division 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Little Lulu
- Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 856th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Spook Six
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 457th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
Related media
- Media Type: Document
- Object Number: Document 53133
- Description: 401st Bomb Group, Mission No. 79, 30 May 1944, Oschersleben
Revisions
Mission details added courtesy of Diane Elizabeth Reese from 457th Bomb Group Mission Documents. http://www.457thbombgroup.org/
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'.