Mission # 270

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 21 February 1945
Eighth Air Force Operations Operations description not yet available.
384th Bomb Group Mission
384th BG Mission Number 270, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 839
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The 384th Bombardment Group (H) led the 41st Combat Wing on today's mission. As the primary target was briefed as 'Visual Bombing only', and the city was cloud-covered, a normal PFF attack on the secondary was made.
Primary Target Target: Tank Factory
Type: Industry
Location: Nuremberg / Nürnberg, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) PFF Secondary (PFF)
Target: Main railroad Station
Type: Transportation
Location: Nuremberg / Nürnberg, Germany
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 34
Flying Spare, Completed Mission - 3
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 4
Scrubbed - 1
Aborted - 2
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗

44 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
42‑38013⇗Drew, James Lawrence⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97510⇗Seavey, Homer Carl⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97824⇗Turner, Willard Jerome⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97986⇗[N/A]Lead Ground Spare Aircraft, UnusedPFF ship.
42‑98027⇗Orr, James Wallace⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead; PFF ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102459⇗Van Pelt, Charles A⇗Spare, Completed MissionHigh Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102518⇗Jerome, Edwin Anthony⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102661⇗Sharp, Alan E⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107125⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 43‑37971.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107148⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑37917⇗Haaf, Arthur Herschel⇗Spare, Completed MissionLead Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37971⇗Cathey, George Warlick⇗Spare, Completed MissionGround Spare Aircraft; replaced 42‑107125. Low Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38016⇗Goble, Charles D⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38062⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑38501⇗Tatulis, Charles Paul⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38548⇗Smith, Jack L⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38647⇗Bennett, Ralph J⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron deputy.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38673⇗Hicks, Gerald Warden⇗Completed MissionLead Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38678⇗Miley, Harold L⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38747⇗Gregg, William G⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38752⇗Whitesides, John Boyce⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38757⇗Griffin, Robert Stanley⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38766⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑38800⇗Patterson, Nelton Dreward⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38801⇗Wright, Edward S⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38823⇗Peterson, Calvin James⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38974⇗Murphy, William Carey⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39019⇗Boyette, Irving H⇗Completed MissionLanded away at RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, due to low fuel.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39035⇗Shuff, Charles Bernard⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39053⇗Smith, Eliot Henry⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39060⇗Donnell, Alonzo McWilliams⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39131⇗Rush, Joseph Henry⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39138⇗Warner, Henry L⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron deputy.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39164⇗Wilson, Robert L⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.Returned to base due to a broken oxygen line at co-pilot position.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6590⇗Grove, Alfred W⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.Turned back due to personnel failure; landed away at Thurleigh soon after takeoff.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6882⇗Spangler, George Knox⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6892⇗Kramer, William Leo⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6898⇗Funk, Donald Olsen⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6909⇗Richardson, George P⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6923⇗MacKellar, Donald Allen⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8008⇗Welsh, James H⇗Completed MissionWing deputy; PFF ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8580⇗Kinnaird, William Robert⇗Completed MissionWing lead; PFF ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8608⇗Pierce, Oscar William⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8668⇗Smith, Jack M⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron lead; PFF ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗