384th 2025 REUNION
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Mission # 290

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 17 March 1945
Eighth Air Force Operations Operations description not yet available.
Mission
384th BG Mission Number 290, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 892
Weather and Equipment Failures
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The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the 41st Combat Wing B Group on todays mission. Multiple equipment failures and adverse weather conditions forced the Group to bypass the primary (and various other) targets, finally attacking the #6 briefed target, with poor results.
Primary Target Target: Synthetic Oil Plant
Type: Oil Industry
Location: Bohlen (Leipzig), Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) #6 (PFF)
Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Erfurt, Germany
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 36
Flying Spare, Completed Mission - 1
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 4
Scrubbed - 1
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⇗

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
42‑32106⇗Lucas, Roy E⇗Completed MissionAlthough not specifically listed in mission documents as a ground spare, this aircraft replaced 42-97309 prior to the mission.
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42‑37788⇗Whitesides, John Boyce⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97271⇗Hicks, Gerald Warden⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97309⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by aircraft 42‑32106.
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42‑97824⇗Grove, Alfred W⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102459⇗Turner, Willard Jerome⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102518⇗Carlson, Russell Edgar⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107148⇗Schauer, William Carl⇗Failed To ReturnLow Squadron flying spare; joined formation. Damaged by flak. Originally reported in MACR 13114 to have left formation over the Channel on return, surviving crew members reported the aircraft crashed in the vicinity of Oschatz, Germany.
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43‑37917⇗Carpenter, Dean Edward⇗Completed MissionLead Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38062⇗Wilson, Robert L⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38588⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑38630⇗Tebo, Clerance L⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron deputy and hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38647⇗Graehl, Russell E⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38678⇗Saxton, John C⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38752⇗Griffin, Robert Stanley⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38801⇗Knaur, John Sherman⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38974⇗Milligan, George Robert⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39019⇗Murphy, William Carey⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39035⇗Ferrell, Oran Luther ⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39053⇗Drew, James Lawrence⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39060⇗Cathey, George Warlick⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39131⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑39138⇗Kramer, William Leo⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron deputy and hot camera ship.
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43‑39164⇗Van Pelt, Charles A⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39197⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
43‑39203⇗Hewes, Charles Pershing⇗Completed MissionGroup deputy. Lead Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39236⇗Shuff, Charles Bernard⇗Spare, Completed MissionHigh Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6109⇗Jordan, Theodore Gustav⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6476⇗Nicolai, Edwin George⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6514⇗Goble, Charles D⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6590⇗Sperry, Dale Marshall⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6892⇗Moorhead, Harris Leroy⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6898⇗Funk, Donald Olsen⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6909⇗Bradford, James W⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6923⇗MacKellar, Donald Allen⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8408⇗Burroughs, Edwin Carlton⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8430⇗Lewis, Charles Allyn⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8541⇗[N/A]Lead Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
44‑8580⇗Gilmore, James Robson⇗Completed MissionGroup lead; PFF ship.
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44‑8608⇗Pierce, Oscar William⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8665⇗Ultcht, John Preston⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron lead; PFF ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8668⇗Belsinger, Harry Flair⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead; PFF ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8679⇗Baughman, John R⇗Completed MissionLanded away at RAF Manston, Kent, on return due to low fuel.
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