SORTIE REPORT #1550
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑01‑30 56 200 Target: Aircraft Assembly Plant
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Brunswick / Braunschweig, Germany
Aircraft Plant Attacked: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) supplied two group formations for today's mission, which flew as the lead and low groups of the 41st Combat Wing A Wing on today's mission. The target was attacked by PFF.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Failed To Return
Comments: Low group. Seen going down before bombs away due to enemy aircraft attacks; crashed between Beber and Eimbeckhausen, Germany. Casualties buried in Bad Münder. MACR 2265
Primary (PFF)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 42‑37727 545th JD*Z ELISE
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Penney, Comus Robert 545 POW
Co-pilot Furber, Donald Wilson 545 KIA
Navigator Huber, Robert Thomas 545 KIA
Bombardier Pinger, Harvey Klarner 545 POW
Radio Operator Parsons, Roland Westley 545 POW
Engineer/Top Turret Gregerson, Allan Harold 545 KIA
Ball Turret Hunt, Walter Francis 545 POW
Tail Gunner McClure, Charles Roesler 545 POW
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Nickles, Mercer Chartos, Jr 545 POW/Wounded
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Kohl, John Gustave 545 POW
SORTIE-RELATED DOCUMENTS:
TYPE IDENTIFICATION
MACRMissing Air Crew Report # 2265
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