SORTIE REPORT #3530
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑05‑30 120 380 Target: Aircraft Hangars and Repair Sheds
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Halberstadt, Germany
Airfield Targeted: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the Lead and Low Groups of the 41st B Combat Bombardment Wing, the last of six Wings in Air Task Force 1, on today's mission. With good conditions for visual bombing, the target was hit hard.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: Lead Group, Low Squadron Deputy. Assumed this role after original Deputy aborted.
Primary (Visual)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 42‑102601 ⇗ 546th BK*K BOLO BABE Pierce, Howard Bundy
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Carey, Gates Chapman⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Bealer, John Levi⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Blackburn, Rexford Maynard⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Hedrick, Melvin Leroy⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Jordan, Theodore Joseph, Jr⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Vidrine, Wayne Francis⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Costello, Kenneth Harold⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Pettit, Frank Michael⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Robinson, Beauregard James⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
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