SORTIE REPORT #863
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1943‑10‑30 Target: Marshaling Yard
Type: Transportation
Location: Geilenkirchen, Germany
Weather Forces Recall: At 1040 hours the Group Leader received a messaage that the mission was scrubbed and all planes returned to this base with their bomb loads.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
No Mission Recalled Database Incomplete
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17F 42‑29632 ⇗ 545th JD*K CASED ACE
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Ashcraft, Archie Bertis, Jr⇗ 545 Returned To Base
Co-pilot Riggins, George Clifton⇗ 545 Returned To Base
Navigator Oppenheimer, Kenneth Harold⇗ 545 Returned To Base
Radar Navigator Adair, Norman Ray⇗ 547 Returned To Base
Bombardier Hern, Wallace Currie⇗ 545 Returned To Base
Engineer/Top Turret Sopher, Francis Walton⇗ 545 Returned To Base
Ball Turret Milstead, Willard Cleo⇗ 545 Returned To Base
Tail Gunner Lindsey, William Howard⇗ 545 Returned To Base
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Oien, Clarence Holger⇗ 545 Returned To Base
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Rachunas, Joseph George⇗ 545 Returned To Base
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