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 |
Completed Mission Comments: Low group. Jettisoned bombs when an engine was shot away by an enemy aircraft and had to leave formation. S/Sgt. Everett Woodard, right waist gunner, awarded Silver Star, Owens p. 199; |
Primary (PFF) |
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA: | ||||
TYPE | SERIAL NUMBER | SQUADRON | SQ CODE | NAME |
B-17G | 42‑37816 ⇗ | 545th | JD*S | BIG STUPE V |
SORTIE CREW DATA: | |||
POSITION | CREWMEMBER | UNIT | STATUS |
Pilot | Hines, James Wesley⇗ | 545 | Completed, Uninjured |
Co-pilot | Burch, Hugh Ralph⇗ | 545 | Completed, Uninjured |
Navigator | Copeland, Carter Glenn⇗ | 545 | Completed, Uninjured |
Bombardier | Morris, Richard William⇗ | 545 | Completed, Uninjured |
Radio Operator | Dahms, Rex John⇗ | 545 | Completed, Uninjured |
Engineer/Top Turret | Jarvis, Francis Harrison⇗ | 545 | Completed, Uninjured |
Ball Turret | Douglas, James Clifton⇗ | 545 | Completed, Uninjured |
Tail Gunner | Cahill, William Lawrence, Jr⇗ | 545 | Completed, Uninjured |
Waist (Flexible) Gunner | Woodard, Everett Durwood⇗ | 545 | Wounded |
Waist (Flexible) Gunner | Wilson, Jerome Frank⇗ | 545 | Wounded |