SORTIE REPORT #6318
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑09‑12 193 626 Target: Synthetic Oil Plant
Type: Oil Industry
Location: Brüx, Czechoslovakia
Synthetic Oil Plant Destroyed: The 384th Bomb Group, flying as the High Section of the 41st CBW, attacked the primary target, a synthetic oil plant, in Brux, Czechoslovakia. A good visual bomb run was made and results are believed good, although 'a patch of clouds came over the target at the time bombs hit,' so results were unobserved.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Failed To Return
Comments: At 1105 near Wittenburg, aircraft was hit by ME-109s on first attack in #3 engine; could not climb back to formation and continuously drifted behind until lost sight of; right wing fell off at 1109 and aircraft went down on fire in a steep glide; 3 chutes; crashed in Grünfelde, immediately west of Kyritz, Germany; MACR 8901
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 Hanlon, Ernest Edward 546 KIA
Co-pilot Vallere, Harold Thomas 546 KIA
Navigator Segars, Arthur Woodrow 546 POW/Wounded
Bombardier Corcoran, Stephen Martin 546 POW
Radio Operator McCarthy, Eugene (NMI) 546 POW
Engineer/Top Turret Blasingame, Willis Anderson, Jr 546 KIA
Ball Turret Titell, Jacques (NMI) 546 KIA
Tail Gunner Brennan, James Joseph 546 KIA
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Wiethop, Richard George 546 KIA
SORTIE-RELATED DOCUMENTS:
TYPE IDENTIFICATION
MACRMissing Air Crew Report # 8901
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