2022 REUNION
IN ARLINGTON, VA
OCTOBER 19-23

Mission # 22

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 7 September 1943
VIII Bomber Command Operations Operations description not yet available.
384th Bomb Group Mission
384th BG Mission Number 22, VIII BC Mission Number 92
384th Leads Composite Group
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The 384th Bomb Group provided the lead and low squadrons of a composite group (high squadron provided by 303rd BG). Conditions at the primary target permitted a visual attack, and good results were reported.
Primary Target Target: Bruxelles-Evere Airfield/Repair Depot
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Brussels / Bruxelles, Belgium
Target Attacked (Mode) Primary (Visual)
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 11
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⇗

15 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
42‑3216⇗Estes, Thomas Jefferson⇗Completed MissionGroup deputy lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑3218⇗Frink, Horace Everett⇗Completed MissionGroup lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑3440⇗Algar, Philip Morris⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.Low sqaudron lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑3441⇗Ogilvie, Donald Potter⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑3459⇗Higdon, Philip E⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑5404⇗Thompson, Siguard (NMI)⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑5444⇗Lecates, Robert Leslie⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron deputy.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑5849⇗Goulder, Edmund Samuel⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29554⇗Sundlun, Bruce George⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29699⇗Jacobs, Randolph George Edward⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off. SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29768⇗Butler, Johnny Addison⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.Difficulty controlling #4 engine and prop caused Butler to abort, after assembling his section.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29935⇗Harry, William Russell⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑30005⇗Ingles, John Thomas⇗Completed MissionGround Spare Aircraft; replaced 42‑30043.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑30033⇗Kelly, James Henry⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑30043⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 42‑30005.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗