SORTIE REPORT #1555
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑01‑30 56 200 Target: Aircraft Assembly Plant
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Brunswick / Braunschweig, Germany
Aircraft Plant Attacked: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) supplied two group formations for today's mission, which flew as the lead and low groups of the 41st Combat Wing A Wing on today's mission. The target was attacked by PFF.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: Low group. Jettisoned bombs when an engine was shot away by an enemy aircraft and had to leave formation. S/Sgt. Everett Woodard, right waist gunner, awarded Silver Star, Owens p. 199;
Primary (PFF)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 42‑37816 ⇗ 545th JD*S BIG STUPE V
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Hines, James Wesley⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Burch, Hugh Ralph⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Copeland, Carter Glenn⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Morris, Richard William⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Dahms, Rex John⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Jarvis, Francis Harrison⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Douglas, James Clifton⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Cahill, William Lawrence, Jr⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Wilson, Jerome Frank⇗ 545 Wounded
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Woodard, Everett Durwood⇗ 545 Wounded
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