SORTIE REPORT #8023
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑12‑04 235 736 Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Soest, Germany
Transportation Attacked: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the 41st Combat Wing C Group on today's mission. Each squadron bombed independently on the initial bomb run, the high squadron bombing a little later than the lead and low. As a result, they returned on the briefed route as an individual squadron.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: Low Squadron hot camera ship.
Primary (Gee-H)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 42‑107083 ⇗ 546th BK*B not known Schiebel, Harold Arthur
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Causa, Raymond (NMI)⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Kimberlin, Grover Jasper⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Dowling, James John⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Cropp, Thomas Edison⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Cortez, Jonathan Hernandez⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Siegenthaler, Robert Joseph⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Bertsch, Robert Lawrence⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Kreuscher, Robert Edward⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Molea, Joseph (NMI)⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
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