SORTIE REPORT #7672
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑11‑20 227 718 Target: Buer Synthetic Oil Plant
Type: Oil Industry
Location: Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Marshalling Yards Bombed: A combination of equipment failures prevented the planned Gee-H attack on the primary target. Therefore, all squadrons of the 384th attacked the secondary PFF target.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: Ground Spare Aircraft, replaced 42‑102500. Composite Squadron, 41st Bomb Wing D group.
Secondary (PFF)
Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Münster, Germany
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 42‑31484 ⇗ 545th JD*F MAIRSY DOATS Coon, Lawrence John
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Duesler, Donald Barton⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Cook, Chandler Boyd⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Rasmussen, Bernard Gerard⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Timmons, David Wesley⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Stewart, John Spencer⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Weckerly, Neuland Edwin⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Carriere, Joseph Herley⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Buis, Robert Eugene⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Downing, Everett Joseph⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
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