SORTIE REPORT #540
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)
No Aborted Mission After Taking Off.
Comments: Low sqaudron lead.
N/A
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17F 42‑3440 ⇗ 544th SU*B BROADWAY ROSE Francis, Percy Tom
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Algar, Philip Morris⇗ 546 Aborted
Co-pilot Wolf, Richard Vance⇗ 546 Aborted
Navigator Celentano, Frank A⇗ 546 Aborted
Bombardier McClanahan, James Clifton⇗ 546 Aborted
Radio Operator Gerow, Francis (NMI)⇗ 546 Aborted
Engineer/Top Turret Laviolette, Roland Bernard⇗ 546 Aborted
Ball Turret McKay, Kenneth Mitchel, Jr⇗ 546 Aborted
Tail Gunner Majewski, Casmer Robert⇗ 546 Aborted
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Yeater, James Thomas⇗ 546 Aborted
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Schimenek, John Francis⇗ 546 Aborted
Observer Stroud, Henry Herbert⇗ 546 Aborted
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