B-17F Aircraft 42-3440 Was Assigned To 55 Missions Manned by 384th BG Personnel,
Earning Combat Credit For 28 Of Them
| Number |
Date |
Target |
Results |
Mission/Sortie Information |
| 15⇗ | 15 August 1943 | Target: Poix-en-Picardie and Amiens-Glisy Airfields
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Poix-de-Picardie & Amiens, France | Completed Mission | Low Squadron lead.
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| 16⇗ | 16 August 1943 | Target: Le Bourget Airport & Air Depot
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Paris, France | Aborted Mission After Taking Off. | Turned back at Splasher 11 at 0830 hrs because of an excessive amount of oil coming from #2 engine, which was then feathered.
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| -- | 19 August 1943 | Gilze-Rijn, Holland, RECALLED | Mission Recalled |
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| 18⇗ | 27 August 1943 | Target: NOBALL (V-1 Launch Site)
Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons)
Location: Watten, France | Completed Mission |
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| 21⇗ | 6 September 1943 | Type: Industry
Location: Stuttgart, Germany | Completed Mission | High Squadron lead. Landed away at Little Staughton, Cambridgeshire, due to low fuel.
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| 22⇗ | 7 September 1943 | Target: Bruxelles-Evere Airfield/Repair Depot
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Brussels / Bruxelles, Belgium | Aborted Mission After Taking Off. | Low sqaudron lead.
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| 24⇗ | 16 September 1943 | Target: Blockade Runner Ship (in Loire River)
Type: Transportation
Location: Nantes, France | Completed Mission |
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| -- | 21 September 1943 | Riems, France, RECALLED | Mission Recalled | Williams (CP)
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| 25⇗ | 23 September 1943 | Target: Submarine Repair Ship
Type: Submarine Facility
Location: Nantes, France | Completed Mission |
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| -- | 26 September 1943 | Nantes, France, RECALLED | Mission Recalled | HSqLd; Robinson (CP)
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| 26⇗ | 27 September 1943 | Target: Port Area
Type: Transportation
Location: Emden, Germany | Completed Mission | High Squadron Lead.
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| 28⇗ | 4 October 1943 | Type: Industry
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Completed Mission |
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| 29⇗ | 8 October 1943 | Target: Workshops
Type: Submarine Facility
Location: Bremen, Germany | Completed Mission | Group deputy.
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| 33⇗ | 20 October 1943 | Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Düren, Germany | Completed Mission |
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| --⇗ | 30 October 1943 | Gelsenkirchen, Germany, RECALLED | Mission Recalled | LSqLd
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| 34⇗ | 3 November 1943 | Target: Port Area
Type: Transportation
Location: Wilhelmshafen, Germany | Completed Mission | Low Squadron lead.
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| -- | 11 November 1943 | Wesel, Germany, RECALLED | Mission Recalled | HSqLd
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| --⇗ | 13 November 1943 | Bremen, Germany, RECALLED | Mission Recalled |
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| 36⇗ | 16 November 1943 | Target: Knaben II Molybdenum Mine
Type: Industry
Location: Knaben, Norway | Completed Mission | Landed away at RAF Catfoss, Yorks.
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| -- | 18 November 1943 | Ferrying
(Non-Combat) | Returned To Base | During a training flight, the crew completed several practice landings. After the final landing, the aircraft collided with a truck while taxiing back to their hardstand, damaging a wing. A short distance later, the tail wheel assembly gave way.
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| 50⇗ | 5 January 1944 | Target: Port Area
Type: Transportation
Location: Kiel, Germany | Did Not Take Off | Low Squadron lead; did not takeoff.
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| 52⇗ | 11 January 1944 | Target: Ju-88 Aircraft Parts Plant
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Halberstadt, Germany | Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off | Replaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 42‑30026.
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| 53⇗ | 14 January 1944 | Target: NOBALL (V-1 Launch Site)
Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons)
Location: Le Meillard, France | Completed Mission | Low Squadron lead.
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| 54⇗ | 21 January 1944 | Target: NOBALL (V-1 Launch Site)
Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons)
Location: Preuseville, France | Completed Mission | 41A Group Deputy.
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| -- | 24 January 1944 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany, RECALLED | Mission Recalled | A Grp
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| 55⇗ | 29 January 1944 | Target: Aircraft Parts Plants
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Completed Mission | Lead group.
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| 56⇗ | 30 January 1944 | Target: Aircraft Assembly Plant
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Brunswick / Braunschweig, Germany | Completed Mission | Low group deputy.
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| 57⇗ | 3 February 1944 | Target: Submarines (under construction)
Type: Submarine Facility
Location: Wilhelmshaven, Germany | Completed Mission | Lead Group, High Squadron Deputy.
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| 58⇗ | 4 February 1944 | Target: Alfred Teves Main Works: Aircraft Parts Plant
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Completed Mission | High group, 41st B Combat Wing.
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| 59⇗ | 5 February 1944 | Target: Bricy Aerodrome, Luftwaffe Training and Bomber Airfield
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Orleans, France | Completed Mission | High Squadron deputy.
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| 60⇗ | 6 February 1944 | Target: Nancy/Essey Aerodrome
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Nancy, France | Completed Mission |
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| 65⇗ | 22 February 1944 | Target: Aircraft Factory
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Halberstadt & Aschersleben, Germany | Aborted Mission After Taking Off. | 41A Group.
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| 66⇗ | 24 February 1944 | Target: Ball-Bearing Plant
Type: Bearings Industry
Location: Schweinfurt, Germany | Aborted Mission After Taking Off. | Lead Squadron, lead group. Flying spare; aborted; took off one hour late and could not catch formation.
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| 67⇗ | 25 February 1944 | Target: Aircraft Assembly & Ball Bearings Plants
Type: Industry
Location: Augsburg & Stuttgart, Germany | Completed Mission | 41A Group.
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| 68⇗ | 28 February 1944 | Target: NOBALL (V-1 Launch Site)
Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons)
Location: Preuseville, France | Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed |
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| 69⇗ | 2 March 1944 | Target: Alfred Teves Main Works: Aircraft Parts Plant and Machine Shop
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Aborted Mission After Taking Off. | Turned back at 1048 hrs because oil cooler broke and oil pressure dropped rapidly.
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| 72⇗ | 6 March 1944 | Target: Erkner Ball-Bearing Factory
Type: Bearings Industry
Location: Berlin, Germany | Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off | Did not take off because of gas leak.
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| 73⇗ | 8 March 1944 | Target: Erkner Ball-Bearing Factory
Type: Bearings Industry
Location: Berlin, Germany | Completed Mission | This aircraft dropped 'nickles' (propaganda leaflets) in addition to demolition bombs.
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| 74⇗ | 9 March 1944 | Target: Heinkel Aircraft Plant
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Oranienburg, Germany | Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off | Replaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 42‑30026.
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| 76⇗ | 18 March 1944 | Target: Aircraft Assembly & Repair Works
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany | Completed Mission | Lead Squadron, high composite group.
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| 78⇗ | 20 March 1944 | Type: Industry
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Mission Recalled |
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| 79⇗ | 22 March 1944 | Target: Heinkel Aircraft Assembly Plant at Annahof Airfield
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Oranienburg, Germany | Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused | |
| 81⇗ | 24 March 1944 | Target: Ball-Bearing Plant
Type: Bearings Industry
Location: Schweinfurt, Germany | Completed Mission | FLIGHT TIME 6:35
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| 85⇗ | 29 March 1944 | Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Brunswick / Braunschweig, Germany | Completed Mission |
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| 87⇗ | 10 April 1944 | Target: Evere Airfield (50°54'3"N 4°20'9"E)
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Brussels / Bruxelles, Belgium | Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused | |
| 94⇗ | 24 April 1944 | Target: Dornier-Werke GMBH Aircraft Plant
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany | Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused | |
| 95⇗ | 25 April 1944 | Target: Metz-Frescaty Airdrome
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Metz, France | Completed Mission |
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| 96⇗ | 27 April 1944 | Target: V-Weapon Service Bunker (under construction)
Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons)
Location: Sottevast, France | Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed |
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| 97⇗ | 27 April 1944 | Target: Toul/Croix de Metz Airfield
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Nancy, France | Completed Mission |
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| 105⇗ | 11 May 1944 | Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Saarbrücken and Ehrang, Germany | Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused | |
| 106⇗ | 12 May 1944 | Target: Synthetic Oil Plant
Type: Oil Industry
Location: Merseburg, Germany | Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused | |
| 108⇗ | 15 May 1944 | Target: NOBALL (V-1 Launch Site)
Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons)
Location: Mimoyecques, France | Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused | |
| 109⇗ | 19 May 1944 | Target: Unidentified Industrial Area
Type: Industry
Location: Berlin, Germany | Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused | |
| 111⇗ | 21 May 1944 | Target: NOBALL (Supergun Site)
Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons)
Location: Mimoyecques, France | Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused | |
| 117⇗ | 28 May 1944 | Target: Junkers Aircraft Plant
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Dessau, Germany | Completed Mission |
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