Mission # 231

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 27 November 1944
384th Mission
Mission Number 231
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8th Air Force Mission Mission Number 727
Mission Comments Weather Cooperates
The 384th provided three squadrons forming the lead group of the 41st Bomb Wing A Wing. A Gee-H bombing run was started at the IP, but the weather changed to CAVU leaving enough time to complete a visual bomb run. Results were deemed 'very good.'
Primary Target Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Offenburg, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) Primary (Visual)
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 36
Aborted - 1
Scrubbed - 2
Flying Spare, Completed Mission - 2
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 2
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗

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
42‑37822⇗Galiano, Joe V ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑38013⇗McNamara, John Gordon ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97150⇗Jackson, Oakley Homer ⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97251⇗Chmura, Edward (NMI) ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97263⇗Mumper, Benjamin R ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97271⇗Weaver, Paul Hanson ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97320⇗DeFrancesco, John Joseph ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97960⇗Abbott, William H ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑98027⇗Cline, Walter W ⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead; PFF & Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102430⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft,
Unused		 
42‑102459⇗Hoppen, Jack Stewart ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102500⇗Duesler, Donald Barton ⇗Flying Spare,
Completed Mission		High Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102501⇗McLean, William S ⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102518⇗Abbott, Edward William ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102661⇗Freiman, Peter Paul ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102933⇗O'Donnell, Phillip J ⇗Completed MissionGround Spare Aircraft, replaced 44‑6109.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107083⇗Causa, Raymond (NMI) ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37703⇗Fleshman, Warren Gray ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37717⇗Starr, William George ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37843⇗Klatt, Merton D ⇗Flying Spare,
Completed Mission		Lead Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37917⇗Zink, Joseph D ⇗AbortedTurned back; #3 prop feathered.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38062⇗Orr, James Wallace ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38501⇗Brookshire, James D ⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38548⇗LeDonne, Edward George ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38616⇗Mohler, John Grigsby ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38673⇗Hicks, Kenneth Delmont ⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38678⇗Herring, Harold F ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38750⇗Evans, Hugh Legar ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38757⇗[N/A]Scrubbed SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38766⇗Salley, Thomas Raysor ⇗Completed MissionLanded away at White Waltham with two engines out; reason unknown.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38800⇗Smith, Jack M ⇗Completed MissionHot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38801⇗Gilmore, James Robson ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38823⇗Mayner, John Robert ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6105⇗Heubner, Emil J ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6109⇗[N/A]ScrubbedReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 42‑102933.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6141⇗McKone, Joseph F ⇗Completed MissionFlew entire mission but could not drop bombs: bomb bay doors would not open either electrically or manually. Bomb load returned to base.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6476⇗Rummel, Brian Dunn ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6514⇗Sienkiewicz, Edward Alfred ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6592⇗Owens, Robert Clare ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8007⇗Davis, L K (IO) ⇗Completed MissionGroup lead; PFF and Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8216⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft,
Unused		 
44‑8221⇗Gross, Kenneth Eugene ⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron lead: PFF & Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8409⇗McDaniel, Clifford Franklin ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗