SORTIE REPORT #2695
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑04‑22 93 311 Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Hamm, Germany
Transportation Targeted: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) provided two elements of the 41st Combat Bombardment Wing B for today's mission: these were the low group, and the high squadron of the high composite group. Clear weather enabled good visual bombing results.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission Primary (Visual)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 42‑97142 ⇗ 546th BK*N THOR, GOD OF THUNDER Francis, Percy Tom
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Cole, Howard Woodrow⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Smigelsky, Horace Joseph⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Dolson, Henry James⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Iverson, Bennie Franklin⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Ellis, Edwin Robert⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret McKeon, Francis Peter⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Hart, George Thurman⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Hartranft, Landis Grant⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Artessa, Carmen Alex⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Long, Thomas Nelson⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
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