SORTIE REPORT #10787
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
Comments: High Squadron Deputy
Tertiary (PFF)
Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Halle, Germany
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 43‑38747 ⇗ 546th BK*N not known Flynn, James Francis
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Turner, Willard Jerome, III⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Smith, George W, Jr⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Naum, Robert Edwin⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Forristal, John Joseph⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Ruderman, Joshua Herman⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Jaeger, Melvin George⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Mollica, John Palmer, Jr⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Apedaile, Vernon Bernard⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Stover, Robert Harry⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
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