SORTIE REPORT #10798
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 Spare, Completed Mission
Comments: High Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
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 43‑39203 ⇗ 546th BK*L GLOBE TROTTER Watterson, Arnold (NMI)
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Montgomery, Robert W⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Hammerstein, Lester Eugene⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Goldsmith, Alan E⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Brockett, Wendell Greene⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator O'Brien, Robert E⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Knapp, Thomas Henry⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Baird, Robert Samuel⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Glass, Lois Vernon⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Dufour, Ralph Kenneth⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
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