SORTIE REPORT #2696
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
Comments: Landed away at RAF Manston, Kent, on return due to battle damage.
Primary (Visual)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 42‑97150 ⇗ 547th SO*F SILVER QUEEN
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot MacKichan, William Graham⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Hautz, William James⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Walling, Neil Emerson⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Lynch, John Daniel, Jr⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Gray, Kenneth D (IO)⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Altendorf, Elroy Andrew⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Cox, John Stewart⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Olstad, Kermit Iver⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Gustafson, Claus Norman⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Dunn, Lawrence Warren⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
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