Mission # 191

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date	10 September 1944
Eighth Air Force Operations	Show Operations Eighth Air Force Operations Mission 619: 1,144 bombers and 570 fighters are dispatched to targets in the Stuttgart, Germany area; 7 bombers are lost mostly to flak and 5 fighters are lost: Air Task Force 1. 388 B-24s are dispatched and hit secondary targets, the marshalling yards at Ulm (247) and Heilbronn (100); 2 others bomb targets of opportunity; 1 B-24 is lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 65 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 2 WIA and 10 MIA. Escort is provided by 153 P-38s and P-51s; 2 P-51s are lost, 3 damaged beyond repair and 1 P-38 and 3 P-51s damaged; 1 pilot is KIA and 2 MIA. Air Task Force 2. 385 B-17s are dispatched to hit a tank factory at Nürnberg (173), Giebelstadt Airfield (112) and an aircraft components plant at Fürth (60); 8 others hit targets of opportunity; 3 B-17s are lost and 147 damaged; 7 airmen are WIA and 28 MIA. Escort is provided by 221 P-47s and P-51s; they claim 1-0-0 aircraft in the air and 38-0-44 on the ground; 3 P-51s are lost and 2 damaged; 3 pilots are MIA. Air Task Force 3. 372 B-17s are dispatched to attack a motor vehicle factory at Gaggenau (140), a jet-propulsion units plant at Zuffenhausen (116) and an engine factory at Sindelfingen (73); 19 others hit targets of opportunity; 3 B-17s are lost, 5 damaged beyond repair and 169 damaged; 9 airmen are WIA and 27 MIA. Escort is provided by 135 of 153 P-51s; they claim 1-1-0 aircraft in the air and 29-0-1 on the ground without loss. Mission 620: 1 B-17 flies a mission to trial the GB-4 radio/visual control bomb against Düren, Germany Mission 621: 3 of 3 B-17s fly a radar and photo reconnaissance mission over Germany; leaflets are also dropped. Six of seven B-17s drop leaflets on France, the Netherlands and Germany during the night. 121 of 135 P-47s strafe airfields and ground and rail traffic in a sweep over the Köln/Cologne, Frankfurt/Main, and Kassel areas; they claim 10-0-21 aircraft on the ground; 8 P-47s are lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 4 damaged; 8 pilots are MIA. 35 B-24s and C-47s fly CARPETBAGGER missions during the night. Source: Jack McKillop, Rutgers University, used with permission. Hide Operations
384^th Bomb Group Mission	384th BG Mission Number 191, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 619 384th Leads Wing Next Mission Previous Mission The 384th Bomb Group (H) provided all aircraft for the 41st B CBW, the tenth of eleven wings in Air Task Force 3 of Eighth Air Force Mission 619. The lead and high squadrons attacked the primary target at Sindelfingen visually, after four and two bomb runs, respectively. The low squadron lost contact with the group leader and, after finding the primary target obscured by clouds, went on to bomb a target of opportunity, railroad marshaling yards between Stuttgart and Bad Cannstatt, Germany.
Primary Target	Target: BMW Motor Component Parts Plant Type: Industry Location: Sindelfingen, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode)	Primary (Visual)
Sortie/Aircraft Summary	Completed Mission, not including spares - 35 Flying Spare, Completed Mission - 1 Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed - 2 Scrubbed - 4 Aborted - 1
Mission Personnel	Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents	Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗
Other Mission Documents	1944-09-10,Wing Lead, Calhoun, R. Keate⇗

43 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
42‑32106⇗	[N/A]	Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off	Replaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 43‑37971. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑37822⇗	Groff, Richard Hubert⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑38013⇗	Skehan, Joseph Lynne⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑38014⇗	Dodson, Lee White⇗	Completed Mission	Ground Spare Aircraft; replaced 43‑37822. Low Squadron. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑38208⇗	Mock, John Montague⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑39888⇗	Gilbert, Stanley Milton⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97142⇗	Mead, Frank Willard⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97150⇗	Bills, Edgar L⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron. Returned with #2 and #4 feathered. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97251⇗	Salley, Thomas Raysor⇗	Completed Mission	Hot camera ship. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97271⇗	Gross, Kenneth Eugene⇗	Completed Mission	Returned with #1 feathered. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97309⇗	[N/A]	Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97320⇗	Carnes, Joe Ross⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97510⇗	Hale, Kenneth Oliver⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97521⇗	Brodie, James Joseph⇗	Spare, Completed Mission	Lead Squadron flying spare; joined formation. The Brodie crew may have been originally assigned to fly 42‑97309, and was forced to switch aircraft for unknown reasons. Apparently they were told to go to Ground Spare Aircraft 43‑37971, but that had already been assigned to Johnstone. Again for unknown reasons, the Chadwick Crew was told to move to lead Ground Spare Aircraft 43‑37971, and turn over 42‑97521 to the Brodie Crew. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97824⇗	Soester, Wilbur Leroy⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron lead. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97941⇗	Chadwick, James Woodrow⇗	Completed Mission	Lead Ground Spare Aircraft, replaced 42‑97521; see 42‑97521 for details. Returned with wounded aboard. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97960⇗	Dudock, Edward Peter⇗	Completed Mission	Hot camera ship; low Squadron deputy. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102430⇗	Wismer, Richard Glen⇗	Aborted Mission After Taking Off.	Turned back due to supercharger failures (and insufficient spares on board to remedy). SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102459⇗	Baker, Dale Richard⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102501⇗	Clements, Ben Hill⇗	Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed	High Squadron SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102518⇗	Peters, Lloyd Arman⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102566⇗	Owens, Robert Clare⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102661⇗	Reed, William Marcus⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102933⇗	Plowman, Noel Elwin⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107057⇗	Duesler, Donald Barton⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107058⇗	LeDonne, Edward George⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107083⇗	Brookshire, James D⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107121⇗	Henderson, William Vincent⇗	Completed Mission	Hot camera ship. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107148⇗	Levine, Max (NMI)⇗	Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed	Low Squadron SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37713⇗	[N/A]	Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off	Replaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 43‑38016. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37822⇗	[N/A]	Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off	Replaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 42‑38014 SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37843⇗	Majeske, Charles Paul⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37917⇗	Hulcher, Donald Lawrence ⇗	Completed Mission	Hot camera ship. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37971⇗	Johnstone, William Andrew⇗	Completed Mission	Dropped two minutes early on primary target; hit marshalling yards instead. Returned with #2 feathered. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37990⇗	Parker, George Frederick⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38016⇗	Peterson, John Wright⇗	Completed Mission	Lead Ground Spare Aircraft, replaced 43‑37713. High Squadron lead. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38062⇗	Blankenmeyer, William J⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron. Returned with #4 feathered. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38213⇗	Buslee, John Oliver⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6109⇗	Farra, Robert Leslie⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6135⇗	Cornair, Russell John⇗	Completed Mission	Low Squadron. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6141⇗	Rice, Robert Eugene⇗	Completed Mission	SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8007⇗	Keate, Richard Clifford⇗	Completed Mission	PFF ship; wing lead. Air commander is Lt. Col. Calhoun Wing Leader, 41st CBW HQ. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8047⇗	Kass, Robert Hiler⇗	Completed Mission	PFF ship; wing deputy. SORTIE REPORT ⇗