MISSION SUMMARY
Mission Date 22 February 1944
384th Mission Number 65
8th Air Force Mission Number 230
Primary Target Junkers Plant
Aircraft Fuselage Plant
Aschersleben, Germany

33 AIRCRAFT ASSIGNED TO THIS MISSION
Aircraft Pilot/Crew Results Comments
41-24578Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionGrp B; LA at Kimbolton due to fuel shortage
42-3087Kew, William JFailed to ReturnGrp B; MIA; shot down by 10-15 vigorous ME 109s or a heavy flak barrage between 1230 and 1300 hrs near Munster; cr Wesel 2KIA, 8POW; MACR 2466
42-3440Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-29632Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-29717Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionTook off late (0922 instead of 0845) due to mechanical trouble but succeeded in joining formation
42-29809Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-29828Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-29927Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionGrp B
42-30026Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionB Grp Deputy
42-31166Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-31235Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-31346Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-31364Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionA Grp Flt Ldr
42-31375Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionLA Gosfield; bombed target
42-31433Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionGrp B LSqLd
42-31495Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionA Grp Deputy
42-31516Jeter, Sidney RFailed to ReturnMIA; collided w 42-38041 fr 303BG Molesworth while forming up at 0956; cr Irthlingborough, UK; 18KIA total; sal AFSC 2/23/44; only survivors were bombardier and navigator who parachuted to safety
42-31926Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-37788Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionGrp B
42-37792Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-37801Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionGrp B HSqLd; LA at East Church due to severe snow storm; BL ret.
42-37848Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionB Grp Flt Ldr
42-37885Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-37974Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-38112Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionHSqLd
42-39809MacDonald, Raymond LFailed to ReturnGrp B; MIA; shot down by 10-15 vigorous ME 109s or a heavy flak barrage between 1230 and 1300 hrs near Munster; cr Wesel 3KIA 7POW; MACR 2467
42-39888Pilot Not In DBCompleted Mission- None -
42-39991Pilot Not In DBAbortedAborted b/c of oxygen leak in navigator's station, causing all oxygen in a/c to leak out; 42 M47A1s rtd
42-97449Pilot Not In DBAbortedGrp B; aborted over Kettering as #3 engine had to be feathered when hit by horizontal stabilizer of a/c in formation which had crashed into another a/c in mid-air
42-97450Markow, Henry VFailed to Return42-97450; ass 457BG Glatton 2/11/44; tran GU BK*? 2/20/44; MIA; shot down during vigorous repeated attacks by 15 ME109s 1230-1300 hrs, Munster vicinity; 10 chutes emerged; cr Wesel, Ger; 10POW; MACR 2464; "plane hit by FW 190s, incendiaries in bomb bay were set on fire, one engine knocked out, another on fire, oxygen out, rudder gone, elevator control damaged, nose knocked off and most guns out of service; three men slightly wounded. Crew bailed out, except bombardier 2nd Lt. George Littleton (who had no parachute) and Markow. They met at the forward escape hatch. Littleton went to search ship, Markow apparently jumped. Still no chute. Alone, Littleton climbed into the pilot?s seat where he was joined by Markow who took the co-pilot spot and crash-landed the plane in Germany, while on fire and under attack from three FW 190s." As Briefed
42-97477Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionLSqLd
42-97488DeFrees, Norman FFailed to ReturnGrp B; MIA; shot down by 10-15 vigorous ME 109s or a heavy flak barrage between 1230 and 1300 hrs near Munster; cr Wesel 10POW; MACR 2465
42-97510Pilot Not In DBCompleted MissionLA Rivenhall due to b/d (flak and e/a); bombed target
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