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Mission # 99

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 1 May 1944
Eighth Air Force Operations Show Operations
Mission
384th BG Mission Number 99, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 332
Last Resort Target Bombed
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The 384th Bombardment Group (H) led the 41st Combat Wing on today's mission. Clouds solidly covered the primary target, so the mission commander led the wing in an attack on an airfield in the Amiens/Poix area of France.
Primary Target Target: Launch Site in Foret Nationale de Tournehem
Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons)
Location: Foret Nationale de Tournehem, France
Target Attacked (Mode) Last Resort Target (Visual)
Target: Poix Airfirld
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Amiens/Poix (Poix-de-Picardie?), France
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 18
Flight Completed - 1
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 2
Scrubbed - 1
Aborted - 3
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗

25 AIRCRAFT ASSIGNED TO THIS MISSION
Table is sorted by Pilot, and may be sorted by any column: click the column head.
Aircraft Pilot Results Mission/Sortie Information
42‑31211⇗Ulrey, Edgar Ellsworth⇗Completed MissionWing Lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑31235⇗Gottfried, Raymond Nathan⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.Numbers 2 & 3 superchargers were out; aircraft was unable to stay in formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑31435⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReturned to base because #1 engine failed. Replaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 42‑37776.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑37776⇗Hall, Barney Marcus⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.High Squadron Deputy. Ground Spare Aircraft; replaced 42‑31435, after landing. Took off again but turned back near mid-channel at 0930 hrs because he could not locate formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑37785⇗Johnson, William T⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑37982⇗Sharff, Sampson (NMI)⇗Completed MissionWent over target but did not release bombs because of 9/10th haze and undercast.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑38013⇗Inman, Loren Alexander⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑38208⇗[N/A]Lead Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑97081⇗Strand, Robert Earl⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97139⇗Decker, Charles Edgar⇗Completed MissionWing Deputy.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97142 ⇗Armstrong, Lloyd Rowland⇗Flight CompletedWeather ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97188⇗Farthing, Frank (NMI)⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97201⇗Wright, James Wiley⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97237⇗Kelly, John Thomas⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron Lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97251⇗Meland, Ralph Wendell⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97273⇗Sullivan, James Dominic⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97282⇗Boger, Eugene Arthur⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97367⇗Kelsay, Omar Frank⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron Deputy.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97404⇗Foster, James Everett⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron Lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97449⇗Coleman, Lee Browning⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97521⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑97573⇗Pompe, Bernard Joseph⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107057⇗Courtemanche, Ralph Eudor⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107074⇗Malone, John James⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.Turned back over base because pilot got severe cramp in knee joint.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107083⇗Humbles, Alfred Thomas⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗