SORTIE REPORT #3581
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑06‑02 122 384 Target: Gun Battery with six 155mm guns, Tactical Support
Type: Military
Location: Hardelot (5 miles S of Boulogne), France
Pre-Invasion Tactical Targets: Colonel Dale O Smith led the 384th Bombardment Group (H) as Group #1 of the 41st Combat Bombardment Wing on today's mission. The Groups of the Wing followed at 3 minute intervals, rather than the normal stacked Wing formation. The assigned target was attacked through solid cloud layers using PFF, with unobserved results.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: High Squadron Deputy.
Primary (PFF)
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 Myers, Robert Stewart⇗ 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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