Mission # 157

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 13 July 1944
Eighth Air Force Operations Show Operations
Mission
384th BG Mission Number 157, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 471
Third Munich Mission
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The 384th Bombardment Group (H) provided the high groups for the 41st A and B Combat Bombardment Wings (41A Group and 41B Group) on today's mission. Both groups bombed on signal from their respective wing lead, who bombed the target using PFF. One aircraft bombed a target of opportunity, apparently the railroad station in Schoden, Germany.
Primary Target Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Munich / München, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) Primary (PFF)
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 33
Flight Completed - 1
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 3
Scrubbed - 1
Aborted - 3
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗
Other Mission Documents 41st Wing, 41B Group Lead, G. Stallings, K. Ungerman⇗

41 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
42‑31484⇗Pompe, Bernard Joseph⇗Completed Mission41A Group, Low Squadron Lead.
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42‑32106⇗Young, Daniel Monroe⇗Completed Mission41A Group, High Squadron Deputy. Landed away at RAF Wethersfield, Essex, on return due to weather.
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42‑37974⇗Patella, Joseph David⇗Completed Mission41B Group. Landed away at Knettishall, AAF Station 136, on return due to weather.
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42‑38014⇗Gowder, Charles Fred⇗Completed Mission41B Group Deputy.
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42‑38208⇗Brown, Billie Barnard⇗Completed Mission41B Group.
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42‑39888⇗Murchan, Lawrence Aloysius⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.41A Group. Turned back with oxygen system problems.
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42‑97072⇗Combs, William Felix⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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42‑97150⇗Dudock, Edward Peter⇗Completed Mission41B Group.
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42‑97178⇗Bean, Arthur E⇗Completed Mission41A Group, Low Squadron Deputy. Landed away at RAF Wratting Common, Cambridgeshire, on return due to weather.
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42‑97201⇗Lynch, Edward Thomas⇗Completed Mission41B Group.
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42‑97204⇗Pring, Robert Bradford⇗Completed Mission41B Group, High Squadron Lead.
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42‑97237⇗Carter, Jack Nifong⇗Completed Mission41B Group, Low Squadron Deputy.
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42‑97251⇗Endelicato, Marion (NMI)⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.41B Group. Turned back while assembling over field because oxygen hose in ball turret broke, also affecting waist gunner's position.
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42‑97263⇗Sweeney, Ned Hardy⇗Completed Mission41B Group, High Squadron Deputy.
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42‑97320⇗Maggart, Richard Lee⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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42‑97367⇗MacFarlane, Menzies James⇗Completed Mission41B Group, Low Squadron Lead.
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42‑97449⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 42‑102500.
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42‑97510⇗Jennings, William Cornelius⇗Completed Mission41B Group. Landed away at Knettishall, AAF Station 136, on return due to weather.
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42‑97521⇗Heim, Gerard Anthony⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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42‑97824⇗Fairfield, William Adelbert⇗Completed Mission41A Group Lead.
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42‑97941⇗[N/A]Lead Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑102430⇗Pluhar, Emil Edward⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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42‑102459⇗Melzar, Raymond Augustus⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.41A Group. Turned back with #4 engine throwing excessive oil.
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42‑102500⇗Bahten, John Irwin⇗Completed Mission41B Group. Ground Spare Aircraft; replaced 41‑97229.
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42‑102501⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑102518⇗Cranstoun, Richard Leroy⇗Completed Mission41A Group, High Squadron Lead.
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42‑102566⇗Minor, Henry W⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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42‑102601⇗Gibson, James Allen⇗Completed Mission41B Group.
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42‑102617⇗Rimbold, Arthur Arimese⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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42‑102620⇗Myrick, Kenneth Delay⇗Completed Mission41B Group. Landed away at Knettishall, AAF Station 136, on return due to weather.
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42‑102661⇗Kelley, Robert Encil⇗Completed Mission41A Group Deputy.
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42‑102933⇗Ungerman, Kenneth Armistead⇗Completed Mission41B Group Lead. Landed away at Knettishall, AAF Station 136, on return due to weather.
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42‑102959⇗Cole, Alfred Holton⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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42‑107083⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑107224⇗Lane, Edward William⇗Flight CompletedWeather aircraft.
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43‑37713⇗Stills, James Vernon⇗Completed Mission41B Group. Landed away at RAF Warboys, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), on return due to weather.
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43‑37717⇗Liebert, Jack Louis⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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44‑6080⇗Menke, Robert Arthur⇗Completed Mission41B Group.
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44‑6109⇗McGee, Leonard Vincent⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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44‑6141⇗James, Robert Huey⇗Completed Mission41A Group.
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44‑6149⇗Griggs, Frederick Monroe⇗Completed Mission41B Group.
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