Mission # 258

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 21 January 1945
Eighth Air Force Operations Operations description not yet available.
Mission
384th BG Mission Number 258, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 803
Radar Bombing
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Previous Mission
The 384th Bombardment Group (H) led the 41st A group on today's mission. With nearly all aircraft landing elsewhere after yesterday's mission, only 14 aircraft were available, and three of those were scrubbed. A solid layer of clouds covered the target, and with the Gee-H equipment in both the lead and deputy lead ships inoperative, bombing was done by radar: results were unobserved.
Primary Target Target: Marshalling Yard
Type: Transportation
Location: Aschaffenburg, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) PFF Secondary (PFF)
Target: Marshalling Yard
Type: Transportation
Location: Aschaffenburg, Germany
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 10
Flight Completed - 1
Scrubbed - 3
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗

14 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
42‑37788⇗Worthen, Kirk Winthrop⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑38013⇗Johnson, Donald Ernest⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑38208⇗Richardson, George P⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97592⇗Gilmore, James Robson⇗Completed MissionGroup lead. PFF and Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97824⇗Gross, Kenneth Eugene⇗Completed MissionGroup deputy. Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102459⇗Ultcht, John Preston⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37843⇗Birder, Rodney Hugh⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37971⇗Owens, Robert Clare⇗Flight CompletedWeather aircraft; remainder of crew (CP, N, RO, Eng) not identified
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38647⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 44‑8408.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38757⇗Ruckman, George Francis⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39019⇗Kinkead, Robert Miller⇗Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6105⇗Smisek, William Joseph⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6590⇗Orr, James Wallace⇗Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8408⇗Rush, Joseph Henry⇗Completed MissionGround Spare Aircraft; replaced 43‑8647.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗