SORTIE REPORT #10777
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1945‑03‑31 301 920 Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Lützkendorf, Germany
Division Bombs Tertiary Target: Due to adverse weather conditions, Division ordered our formations to bomb the tertiary target. Leaving the target area as briefed, they encountered the 3rd division making a bomb run on Merseburg, but avoided mishap.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission Tertiary (PFF)
Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Halle, Germany
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 44‑8408 ⇗ 545th JD*C not known
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Burroughs, Edwin Carlton⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Stoecker, John George, Jr⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Smoot, Gene W⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Vienna, Howard Bartel, Jr⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Misch, Henry Conrad⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Bittke, Carl Frederic⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Spot Jammer Pyle, Joseph Edgar⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Sandbek, Phillip Elmore⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner O'Bryan, William Herbert, Jr⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Newberry, Donald Eugene⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
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