SORTIE REPORT #2472
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑04‑10 87 295 Target: Evere Airfield (50°54'3"N 4°20'9"E)
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Brussels / Bruxelles, Belgium
Good Weather Helps: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the high group of the 41st Combat Wing on today's mission. Good weather, for a change, aided assembly and bombing, and allowed all aircraft to return to base.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: Low Squadron deputy.
Primary (Visual)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 42‑97136 ⇗ 544th SU*J not known
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Knapp, Paul Bernard⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Pulliam, Lyle James⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator DeWitt, Robert Courtney⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier LaSalle, Angelo Aloysius⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Stahl, Bruce Warren⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Jakway, James Allen⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Mason, Covert Nathan⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Cleland, Deston Kenneth⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Cates, Clay Franklin⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Matican, Sigmund Sidney⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
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