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Mission # 229

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 25 November 1944
Eighth Air Force Operations Operations description not yet available.
384th Bomb Group Mission
384th BG Mission Number 229, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 723
Bad Day for German Oil
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The 384th provided the three squadrons of the 41st Bomb Wing B Group. A visual attack on the primary target was not possible due to weather, so the Leuna works at Merseburg were bombed using PFF aiming. On returning to England, weather forced the diversion of 384th aircraft to Aldermaston and other fields; only two were able to land at Grafton Underwood.
Primary Target Target: Synthetic Oil Plant
Type: Oil Industry
Location: Lützkendorf, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) Secondary (PFF)
Target: Leuna Works Oil Refinery
Type: Oil Industry
Location: Merseburg, Germany
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 36
Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed - 3
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 4
Scrubbed - 1
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗
Other Mission Documents 1944-11-25, Group Lead, PFF Ship, T. Hutchinson, H. Neville⇗

44 AIRCRAFT ASSIGNED TO THIS MISSION
Table is sorted by Pilot, and may be sorted by any column: click the column head.
Aircraft Pilot Results Mission/Sortie Information
42‑97263⇗Abbott, William H⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97271⇗Backman, Glenn Elmer⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97320⇗Galiano, Joe Vincent⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship; landed away at White Waltham, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97592⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑97960⇗McNamara, John Gordon⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑98000⇗McKone, Joseph F⇗Flying Spare, Returned As BriefedLow Squadron
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102459⇗DeFrancesco, John Joseph⇗Completed MissionLanded at Grafton Underwood.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102500⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑102501⇗Brookshire, James D⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship; landed away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102661⇗Wehrheim, Francis Walter⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107083⇗Causa, Raymond (NMI)⇗Flying Spare, Returned As BriefedLead Squadron
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107121⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 43‑37713.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107125⇗Wismer, Richard Glen⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107148⇗Zink, Joseph Darrell⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Hunston (probably RAF Hunsdon), due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37703⇗Fleshman, Warren Gray⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37713⇗Somers, James Lowell⇗Completed MissionGround Spare Aircraft; replaced 42‑107121. Landed away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37717⇗O'Donnell, Phillip John⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship; landed away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37843⇗Klatt, Merton Dale⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37917⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑38016⇗Rice, Robert Eugene⇗Completed MissionGee-H ship; landed away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38062⇗Evans, Hugh Legar⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship; landed away at Harwell, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38501⇗Duesler, Donald Barton⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38548⇗LeDonne, Edward George⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38616⇗Pranger, Nicholas Vincent⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38630⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑38673⇗Starr, William George⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38678⇗Rose, Gerald Dale⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38752⇗Harter, David Smuck⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38757⇗Farnsworth, Reuben Joseph⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38766⇗Mead, Frank Willard⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38800⇗Woodworth, John Dempster⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38801⇗Gilmore, James Robson⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38823⇗Fahr, John (NMI)⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship; landed away at Bovingdon, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6105⇗Heubner, Emil J⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6109⇗Hicks, Kenneth Delmont⇗Flying Spare, Returned As BriefedHigh Squadron
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6141⇗Hoppen, Jack Stewart⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6476⇗Rummel, Brian Dunn⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship; landed away at Molesworth ('Wing'), due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6514⇗Sienkiewicz, Edward Alfred⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6592⇗Majeske, Charles Paul⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8007⇗Martin, Donald Francis⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead; PFF ship; landed at Grafton Underwood.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8008⇗Neville, Harry Walter⇗Completed MissionGroup lead; PFF ship; landed away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8401⇗Gilbert, Stanley Milton⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron lead; landed away at Aldermaston.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8409⇗Abbott, Edward William⇗Completed MissionLanded away at AAF Bovingdon, Station 112, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8430⇗McLean, William S⇗Completed MissionLanded away at Aldermaston, due to weather.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗