SORTIE REPORT #2703
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 42‑97320 ⇗ 544th SU*G HOT ROCK
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Harvey, Walter Lewis⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Brown, Robert Harold⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Rule, Johnson William⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Rader, Richard Eugene⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Sturak, Stanley John⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Smith, Dewey Carlyle⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Roberson, Charles William⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Vann, George Daniel, Jr⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Atkins, James Asa⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner McManus, Cornelius Patrick⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
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