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Mission # 232

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 29 November 1944
Eighth Air Force Operations Operations description not yet available.
384th Bomb Group Mission
384th BG Mission Number 232, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 729
Refinery Bombed
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The 384th provided three squadrons of the lead group of the 41st Bomb Wing C Wing. Advised that the primary target was covered by 10/10ths clouds, the group attacked the secondary (PFF aiming point) target in the same area.
Primary Target Target: Oil Refinery
Type: Oil Industry
Location: Misburg, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) Secondary (PFF)
Type: Oil Industry
Location: Misburg, Germany
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 35
Flying Spare, Completed Mission - 3
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 2
Scrubbed - 2
Aborted - 1
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗
Other Mission Documents 1944-11-29,Group Lead, M. Booska, J.Carnes⇗

43 AIRCRAFT ASSIGNED TO THIS MISSION
Table is sorted by Pilot, and may be sorted by any column: click the column head.
Aircraft Pilot Results Mission/Sortie Information
42‑38013⇗Mumper, Benjamin Royce⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑39888⇗Wyatt, William Glenn⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97150⇗Jackson, Oakley Homer⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97251⇗Somers, James Lowell⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97263⇗Woodworth, John Dempster⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97271⇗Holmes, George W⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97320⇗DeFrancesco, John Joseph⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97510⇗Walker, Jay F⇗Completed MissionReturned one bomb.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97960⇗Abbott, William H⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑98000⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑102459⇗Hoppen, Jack Stewart⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102500⇗Hartness, Joseph George⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102501⇗McLean, William S⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102518⇗Touton, William Frank⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102661⇗Fleshman, Warren Gray⇗Spare, Completed MissionLead Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102933⇗Mead, Frank Willard⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107083⇗Causa, Raymond (NMI)⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37717⇗Starr, William George⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37843⇗Brown, Bert Oliver⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37917⇗Zink, Joseph Darrell⇗Spare, Completed MissionHigh Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37971⇗McDaniel, Clifford Franklin⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38016⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 44‑8216. took off with Gilbert Crew, but lost #2 engine.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38062⇗Orr, James Wallace⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.Hot camera ship. Aborted due to mechanical failure; landed away at Halesworth; jettisoned bombs in Channel.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38501⇗Hassing, Eugene Theron⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38542⇗Bills, Edgar L⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38548⇗LeDonne, Edward George⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38630⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑38673⇗Hicks, Kenneth Delmont⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38678⇗Herring, Harold F⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38750⇗Warner, Henry L⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38752⇗Hicks, Ralph Benjamin⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38801⇗Gilmore, James Robson⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38823⇗Abbott, Edward William⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6105⇗Majeske, Charles Paul⇗Spare, Completed MissionLow Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6109⇗O'Donnell, Phillip John⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6141⇗Galiano, Joe Vincent⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6476⇗Duesler, Donald Barton⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6514⇗Sienkiewicz, Edward Alfred⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6592⇗Goodrick, Gene Robert⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8007⇗Carnes, Joe Ross⇗Completed MissionGroup lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8211⇗Doran, William Elmer⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8216⇗Gilbert, Stanley Milton⇗Completed MissionGilbert Crew took off in 43‑38016 but lost #2 engine; landed and moved to this aircraft.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8409⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 42‑97271
SORTIE REPORT ⇗