384th 2025 REUNION
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Mission # 287

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 12 March 1945
Eighth Air Force Operations Operations description not yet available.
Mission
384th BG Mission Number 287, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 883
Transportation System Targeted
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The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the 41st Bomb Wing B Group on today's mission. Clouds obscured the target, preventing visual bombing. Instead, bombs were dropped using Gee-H aiming.
Primary Target Target: Railway Center
Type: Transportation
Location: Betzdorf, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) Secondary (Gee-H)
Target: Railway Center (Gee-H aim point)
Type: Transportation
Location: Betzdorf, Germany
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 36
Flying Spare, Completed Mission - 2
Flight Completed - 1
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 2
Scrubbed - 1
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗
Other Mission Documents 1945-03-12, Group Lead, PFF & GEE-H Ship, A. Strickland, W. Kinnaird⇗

42 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
42‑32106⇗Blagg, John Anthony⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑37788⇗Pierce, Oscar William⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑37822⇗Turner, Willard Jerome⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97271⇗Burroughs, Edwin Carlton⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97510⇗Leavitt, Philip Neldon⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑98027⇗[N/A]Lead Ground Spare Aircraft, UnusedPFF and Gee-H ship.
42‑102459⇗Nicolai, Edwin George⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102518⇗Carpenter, Dean Edward⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107148⇗Murphy, William Carey⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37843⇗Wright, Edward S⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37917⇗Schauer, William Carl⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38016⇗Kowats, Daniel Frank⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38062⇗Van Pelt, Charles A⇗Completed MissionGround Spare Aircraft; replaced 44‑8608.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38548⇗Festersen, John Carl⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38588⇗Seavey, Homer Carl⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38630⇗Donnell, Alonzo McWilliams⇗Completed MissionLead Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38647⇗Lucas, Roy E⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38678⇗Miley, Harold L⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38757⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑38766⇗Gregg, William G⇗Spare, Completed MissionLow Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38800⇗Wilson, Robert L⇗Spare, Completed MissionHigh Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38974⇗Miller, John C⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38994⇗Smith, Eliot Henry⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39019⇗Hewes, Charles Pershing⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron deputy and hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39060⇗Connor, John Michael⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39131⇗Rush, Joseph Henry⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39138⇗Kramer, William Leo⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron deputy and hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39164⇗Sperry, Dale Marshall⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6109⇗Jordan, Theodore Gustav⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6514⇗Magleby, Calvin Charles⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6882⇗Henry, Robert Tyson⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6892⇗Knaur, John Sherman⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6909⇗Tatulis, Charles Paul⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6923⇗MacKellar, Donald Allen⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8211⇗Ramsay, Walter E⇗Completed MissionGroup deputy and hot camera ship; PFF and Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8430⇗Grove, Alfred W⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8541⇗Ultcht, John Preston⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead; PFF and Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8608⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 43‑38062.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8649⇗Kinnaird, William Robert⇗Completed MissionGroup lead; PFF and Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8665⇗Shelley, John Keith⇗Flight CompletedWeather aircraft; remainder of crew (CP, N, RO, Eng) not identified in mission documents.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8679⇗Baughman, John R⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8789⇗Boyette, Irving H⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron lead; PFF ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗