SORTIE REPORT #9163
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1945‑02‑03 264 817 Target: Tempelhof Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Berlin, Germany
Transportation Targeted: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the 41st B Combat Wing on today's mission. Unusual clear weather permitted accurate visual bombing.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: High Squadron. Waist Gunner wounded. Pilot reported battle damage: #2 engine knocked out and had to be feathered, fuselage riddled, left waist O2 system knocked out.
Primary (Visual)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 43‑39131 ⇗ 546th BK*B PRIMO'S GIN MILL Schiebel, Harold Arthur
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Johnson, Donald Ernest⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Kloss, Stanley Frank⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Neumann, James Howard⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Cropp, Thomas Edison⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Cawthon, William Hilton⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Fisher, Darwin Edward⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Asby, Sidney Lee, Jr⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Matthews, Frederick Donald⇗ 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Plont, George John⇗ 546 Wounded
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