SORTIE REPORT #3551
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)
No Aborted Mission After Taking Off.
Comments: Turned back at 0926 hrs because radio operator became ill.
N/A
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 42‑97449 ⇗ 547th SO*B SWEETHEART
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Wortman, Marshall (NMI)⇗ 547 Aborted
Co-pilot Mulvehill, Edmund Whelan⇗ 547 Aborted
Navigator Leverette, James Harold⇗ 547 Aborted
Togglier Radde, Gerhardt Carl⇗ 547 Aborted
Radio Operator Van Natter, William Burton⇗ 547 Aborted
Engineer/Top Turret Radtke, Hilbert Robert⇗ 547 Aborted
Ball Turret Irwin, Robert Tait⇗ 547 Aborted
Tail Gunner Malone, George Martin⇗ 547 Aborted
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Simeone, Frank Joseph⇗ 547 Aborted
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