SORTIE REPORT #1070
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1943‑12‑05 40 149 Target: Fighter Airfield
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Saint-Jean-d'Angély, France
Weather Prevents Attack: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) led the 41st Combat Wing, the first of the two combat wings comprising Air Task Force 1, on today's mission. Clouds were encountered during the mission until they became impenetrable about 75 miles from the target, at which point the attack was abandoned. Although no attack was accomplished, due to the penetration of enemy air space the groups involved received combat credit.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Returned To Base
Comments: High Squadron lead. Crew list includes Captain H H Stroud, a medical officer, with position given as M: he is entered as an 'Observer' on this sortie because he was observing the medical aspects of conditions experienced by the crew in combat. Landed away at RNAS Henstridge, Somerset. Returned to base 7 December 1943.
N/A
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 42‑31058 546th BK*T LIBERTY RUN Francis, Percy Tom
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Wilson, William Monroe 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Wise, Joseph William 545 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Bailey, William Eugene 546 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Crown, Richard Keith GpHQ Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Compton, James Harold 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Birnbaum, Lester (NMI) 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Heintzelman, David Leroy 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Greene, Frank Palmer 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Stamm, Murray Raymond 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Pavlisko, John Arthur 546 Completed, Uninjured
Observer Stroud, Henry Herbert 546 Completed, Uninjured
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