MISSION DATA: | |||
DATE | 384th BG Mission # | 8th AF Mission # | 384th PRIMARY TARGET |
1944‑05‑01 | 99 | 332 | Target: Launch Site in Foret Nationale de Tournehem Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons) Location: Foret Nationale de Tournehem, France |
Last Resort Target Bombed: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) led the 41st Combat Wing on today's mission. Clouds solidly covered the primary target, so the mission commander led the wing in an attack on an airfield in the Amiens/Poix area of France. |
SORTIE DATA: | ||
COMBAT CREDIT | STATUS | TARGET ATTACKED (MODE) |
Yes | Completed Mission |
Last Resort Target (Visual) Target: Poix Airfirld Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe) Location: Amiens/Poix (Poix-de-Picardie?), France |
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA: | ||||
TYPE | SERIAL NUMBER | SQUADRON | SQ CODE | NAME |
B-17G | 42‑97188 ⇗ | 544th | SU*A | not known |
SORTIE CREW DATA: | |||
POSITION | CREWMEMBER | UNIT | STATUS |
Pilot | Farthing, Frank (NMI)⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |
Co-pilot | Cole, Alfred Holton⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |
Navigator | Oyler, Ernest Renwick⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |
Togglier | Corpening, Robert Clark⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |
Radio Operator | Purdy, Alan Bradford⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |
Engineer/Top Turret | Boone, James Douglas, Jr⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |
Ball Turret | Cameron, Francis Raymond⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |
Tail Gunner | Clark, Alfred Albert⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |
Waist (Flexible) Gunner | Stevens, John Jay⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |
Waist (Flexible) Gunner | Matican, Sigmund Sidney⇗ | 544 | Completed, Uninjured |