Mission Date | 21 January 1945 |
Eighth Air Force Operations | Operations description not yet available. |
384th Bomb Group Mission |
384th BG Mission Number 258, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 803
Radar Bombing The 384th Bombardment Group (H) led the 41st A group on today's mission. With nearly all aircraft landing elsewhere after yesterday's mission, only 14 aircraft were available, and three of those were scrubbed. A solid layer of clouds covered the target, and with the Gee-H equipment in both the lead and deputy lead ships inoperative, bombing was done by radar: results were unobserved.
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Primary Target |
Target: Marshalling Yard Type: Transportation Location: Aschaffenburg, Germany |
Target Attacked (Mode) |
PFF Secondary (PFF) Target: Marshalling Yard Type: Transportation Location: Aschaffenburg, Germany |
Sortie/Aircraft Summary |
Completed Mission, not including spares - 10 Flight Completed - 1 Scrubbed - 3 |
Mission Personnel | Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗ |
Mission Documents | Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗ |
Aircraft | Pilot | Results | Mission/Sortie Information |
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42‑37788⇗ | Worthen, Kirk Winthrop⇗ | Completed Mission | SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
42‑38013⇗ | Johnson, Donald Ernest⇗ | Completed Mission | SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
42‑38208⇗ | Richardson, George P⇗ | Completed Mission | Hot camera ship. SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
42‑97592⇗ | Gilmore, James Robson⇗ | Completed Mission | Group lead. PFF and Gee-H ship. SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
42‑97824⇗ | Gross, Kenneth Eugene⇗ | Completed Mission | Group deputy. Gee-H ship. SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
42‑102459⇗ | Ultcht, John Preston⇗ | Completed Mission | SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
43‑37843⇗ | Birder, Rodney Hugh⇗ | Completed Mission | SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
43‑37971⇗ | Owens, Robert Clare⇗ | Flight Completed | Weather aircraft; remainder of crew (CP, N, RO, Eng) not identified SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
43‑38647⇗ | [N/A] | Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off | Replaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 44‑8408. SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
43‑38757⇗ | Ruckman, George Francis⇗ | Completed Mission | SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
43‑39019⇗ | Kinkead, Robert Miller⇗ | Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off | SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
44‑6105⇗ | Smisek, William Joseph⇗ | Completed Mission | SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
44‑6590⇗ | Orr, James Wallace⇗ | Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off | SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |
44‑8408⇗ | Rush, Joseph Henry⇗ | Completed Mission | Ground Spare Aircraft; replaced 43‑8647. SORTIE REPORT ⇗ |