SORTIE REPORT #2698
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
B-17G 42‑97188 ⇗ 544th SU*A not known
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Farthing, Frank (NMI)⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Allio, Orion Randolph⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Oyler, Ernest Renwick⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Harper, William Lester⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Owens, John Ralph⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Biederman, Harold Leroy⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Arnold, Walter Howard⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Clark, Alfred Albert⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Bonanza, John Joseph, Jr⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Stevens, John Jay⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
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