SORTIE REPORT #756
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1943‑10‑09 30 113 Target: Aircraft Factories
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Anklam, Germany
Aircraft Factories Attacked: The 384th Bombardment Group (H) put up 21 Flying Fortresses as the High Group of the 41st Combat Bombardment Wing, which led the 1st Air Task Force on today's mission. They pounded one source of enemy air strength, the aircraft factories at Anklam, with excellent results under perfect bombing conditions.

Maj. Ketelsen, Group Leader: 'Fifteen fighters attacked at 1035 for ten minutes, halfway through Denmark, but no fighters or flak from there to target. After leaving the target, Ju-88s, ME's, and FW-190s attacked for two hours. Flew too close to Rostock and its heavy intense flak on way home. Thirty minutes after the two hour attack ended, 60 miles off the Frisian Islands, FW-190s attacked the wing following the 41st wing. Low clouds forced the group up so that it came home apart from other groups.'
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Failed To Return
Comments: Disabled by enemy aircraft, crashed in Schleswig-Holstein; MACR 873.
Air Commander's Report Excerpt:
A/C 712 1235 14,000' 54 degrees 38'N 09 degrees 40'E vertical and left horizontal stabilizer shot away. Down in spin followed by E/A.
2 chutes out, 54 degrees 38'N 10 05'E
6 chutes out, 54 degrees 38'N 09 40'E
1 chute out, as spin started.
Tail gun still firing as A/C 712 went down into a spin.
Primary (Visual)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17F 42‑29712 546th BK*O PHILLY-BROOKLYN McIntire, Bruce Dodson
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Calnon, Mark Brooks 546 POW
Co-pilot Barnes, Vernon Dale 546 POW
Navigator Kusler, Ted Harold 546 POW
Bombardier Hasler, Lowell Clarence 546 POW/Wounded
Radio Operator Patterson, Billie Bob 546 KIA
Engineer/Top Turret Rolleri, John Dominic 546 POW
Ball Turret Lopez, Sam (NMI) 546 KIA
Tail Gunner Lendoiro, Cesareo Garcia 546 KIA
Waist (Flexible) Gunner McGettigan, John Aloysius, Jr 546 POW
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Henrickson, Robert Marshall 546 POW
SORTIE-RELATED DOCUMENTS:
TYPE IDENTIFICATION
MACRMissing Air Crew Report # 873
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