SORTIE REPORT #3912
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑06‑12 133 407 Target: Railroad Bridge 48°29'N,2°0'W
Type: Transportation
Location: La Vicomté-sur-Rance, France
A Different Bridge Destroyed: The 384th supplied all three groups of the 41st C Wing, with Col Robert E Travis aboard the Wing Lead aircraft as Air Commander. Clouds obscured the primary target, so the wing attacked a target of opportunity (TOO). Strike photos reveal that the wing bombed a highway bridge across the River Rance, just west of La Ville-ès-Nonais. Target locations taken from Google Maps, with reference to strike photo in mission folder.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: Lead Group, Low Squadron Lead.
TOO (Visual)
Target: Highway Bridge at 48°32'N,1°58'W
Type: Transportation
Location: La Ville-ès-Nonais, France
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 44‑6105 547th SO*P SLEEPY LAGOON
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Wortman, Marshall (NMI) 547 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Mulvehill, Edmund Whelan 547 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Leverette, James Harold 547 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Thevenet, Charles James, Jr 547 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Shoolbred, Charles Ewen 547 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Van Natter, William Burton 547 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Radtke, Hilbert Robert 547 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Irwin, Robert Tait 547 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Malone, George Martin 547 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Simeone, Frank Joseph 547 Completed, Uninjured
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