Mission # 30

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 9 October 1943
VIII Bomber Command Operations Show Operations
384th Bomb Group Mission
384th BG Mission Number 30, VIII BC Mission Number 113
Aircraft Factories Attacked
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Previous Mission
The 384th Bombardment Group (H) put up 21 Flying Fortresses as the High Group of the 41st Combat Bombardment Wing, which led the 1st Air Task Force on today's mission. They pounded one source of enemy air strength, the aircraft factories at Anklam, with excellent results under perfect bombing conditions.

Maj. Ketelsen, Group Leader: 'Fifteen fighters attacked at 1035 for ten minutes, halfway through Denmark, but no fighters or flak from there to target. After leaving the target, Ju-88s, ME's, and FW-190s attacked for two hours. Flew too close to Rostock and its heavy intense flak on way home. Thirty minutes after the two hour attack ended, 60 miles off the Frisian Islands, FW-190s attacked the wing following the 41st wing. Low clouds forced the group up so that it came home apart from other groups.'
Primary Target Target: Aircraft Factories
Type: Aircraft Industry
Location: Anklam, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) Primary (Visual)
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 17
Ditched - 1
Scrubbed - 1
Aborted - 2
Failed To Return - 1
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗

22 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
41‑24529⇗Willing, Mark Skinner⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.Ground Spare Aircraft; replaced 42‑3216. Subsequently aborted, unable to locate formation after late takeoff.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
41‑24557⇗Sundlun, Bruce George⇗Completed MissionGroup deputy.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
41‑24560⇗Hurley, Joseph Anthony⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑3037⇗Ashcraft, Archie Bertis⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑3051⇗MacPhail, Philip Ray⇗Completed MissionAircraft sustained severe battle damage, with 42 holes in critical positions. It did not fly again until December 13.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑3216⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 41-24529.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑3218⇗Jones, William Arch⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑3441⇗Armstrong, Lloyd Rowland⇗Completed MissionGroup lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑5086⇗Wilson, William Monroe⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑5747⇗Kopf, William Everett⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29651⇗Carpenter, Walter Richard⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29703⇗Robinson, Robert Lawrence⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29712⇗Calnon, Mark Brooks⇗Failed To ReturnDisabled by enemy aircraft, crashed in Schleswig-Holstein; MACR 873.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29717⇗Sprague, Alfred Lee⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29809⇗Bedsole, Joseph Linyer⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29814⇗Ingles, John Thomas⇗Failed To Return: DitchedDamaged by enemy aircraft; ditched at 1341 hrs 50 mi. west of Danish coast, North Sea; MACR 872.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29867⇗Williams, Walter Gordon⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29927⇗Kaczaraba, William (NMI)⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑29987⇗Price, William Merriman⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑30005⇗Harry, William Russell⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑30026⇗Keller, Lawrence Larry⇗Aborted Mission After Taking Off.Turned back because #4 engine was rough; jettisoned bombs in safe condition in The Wash; landed away at Kingscliffe; #2 prop nicked by flak; piece of flak embedded in pilot's cushion; empty shell casing wedged in the cooling fins in #3 engine.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑30033⇗Kelly, James Henry⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead.
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