SORTIE REPORT #539
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1943‑09‑07 22 92 Target: Bruxelles-Evere Airfield/Repair Depot
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Brussels / Bruxelles, Belgium
384th Leads Composite Group: The 384th Bomb Group provided the lead and low squadrons of a composite group (high squadron provided by 303rd BG). Conditions at the primary target permitted a visual attack, and good results were reported.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: Group lead.
Primary (Visual)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17F 42‑3218 ⇗ 545th JD*R DORIS MAE
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Commander Beckett, Thomas Pope⇗ GpHQ Completed, Uninjured
Pilot Frink, Horace Everett⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Hegstad, Lester Olaf⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Carlson, Clyde Pemberton⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Griffith, Roy Wesley⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Ralston, William Clark⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Shelton, William Abner, Jr⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Fields, Leon (NMI)⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner McNutt, Julius Frederick⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Savage, Clyde Henry⇗ 547 Completed, Uninjured
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