SORTIE REPORT #7879
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑11‑27 231 727 Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Offenburg, Germany
Weather Cooperates: The 384th provided three squadrons forming the lead group of the 41st Bomb Wing A Wing. A Gee-H bombing run was started at the IP, but the weather changed to CAVU leaving enough time to complete a visual bomb run. Results were deemed 'very good.'
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: Landed away at White Waltham with two engines out; reason unknown.
Primary (Visual)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 43‑38766 ⇗ 546th BK*R TU YUNG TU Jones, Robert A
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Salley, Thomas Raysor, Jr⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Barnett, William Alexander⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator McCaffrey, William Henry⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Timmons, David Wesley⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Deen, Allen Jay⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Brown, Oakley Wayne⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Rogerson, Harold William⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner McCloskey, Arthur Edward⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Anderson, Emmitt Eugene⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
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