SORTIE REPORT #5924
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑08‑25 184 570 Target: Airfield & Airpark
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Anklam, Germany
Luftwaffe Attacked: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) provided lead and low groups of the 41st B Combat Bombardment Wing on today's mission, the high group being supplied by the 303rd BG from Molesworth, Station 107. Visibility was good in the target area, and visual bombing results were excellent. Our lead bombardier, 1st Lt. Robert P. Mechling, finding his assigned aim point obliterated, wisely shifted his sights to the next untouched group of facilities and destroyed them.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: Low Squadron lead, lead group.
Primary (Visual)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 42‑97142 546th BK*N THOR, GOD OF THUNDER Francis, Percy Tom
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Pranger, Nicholas Vincent 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Vaden, Kenneth Underwood 546 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Brooks, James Joseph 546 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Wolf, Charles Elmer, Jr 546 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Neyer, Ralph Richard 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Brooker, Cameron Hutchison 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Browne, Erle Royden 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Hosmer, Richard Clyde 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Stephens, Herbert Arthur 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Price, William Robert 546 Completed, Uninjured
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