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Mission # 314

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 19 April 1945
Eighth Air Force Operations Operations description not yet available.
Mission
384th BG Mission Number 314, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 961
Critical Railway Junction
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The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the 41st Combat Wing B Group on today's mission. Visual bombing conditions enabled accurate aiming, although many of the bombs landed beyond the planned MPI, or 'long'. A traffic conflict caused the high squadron to hold its bombs on the first run and make a second run by itself, tacking on to another formation for the return flight.
Primary Target Target: Railroad Station & Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Elsterwerda, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) Primary (Visual)
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 36
Flying Spare, Completed Mission - 2
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 4
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗

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
42‑38208⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑97309⇗Poulton, John W⇗Spare, Completed MissionHigh Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97510⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑97824⇗Montgomery, Robert W⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑98027⇗Turner, Willard Jerome⇗Completed MissionLead Squadron deputy and hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102459⇗Gray, Harold Reginald⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102518⇗Carlson, Russell Edgar⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102620⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑107125⇗Murray, John Phillip⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37717⇗MacDonald, Ranald Hugh⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37917⇗Dott, Donald Shropshire⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑37971⇗Carpenter, Dean Edward⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron deputy and hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38016⇗Kowats, Daniel Frank⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38501⇗Hatch, William Alva⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38548⇗Lovett, Andrew Gordon⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38588⇗Humphries, Richard Sterling⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38673⇗Jerome, Edwin Anthony⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38747⇗Festersen, John Carl⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38752⇗Ruckman, George Francis⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38757⇗Meitzler, Roy Albert⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38766⇗Henry, Robert Tyson⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38839⇗Blagg, John Anthony⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38974⇗Nicolai, Edwin George⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑38994⇗Smith, Eliot Henry⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39131⇗Leavitt, Philip Neldon⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39138⇗Knaur, John Sherman⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39197⇗Magleby, Calvin Charles⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron deputy and hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39203⇗Neal, William T⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
43‑39444⇗Shotto, Francis Rexford⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6476⇗Hartley, Henry Allan⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6514⇗Eakin, Otho Mitchell⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6882⇗Wahlstrom, Harry Lawrence⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6892⇗Moorhead, Harris Leroy⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑6909⇗Porter, James L⇗Spare, Completed MissionLow Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8211⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, UnusedLead PFF & Gee-H ground spare.
44‑8408⇗Sheahan, Robert E⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8541⇗Boyette, Irving H⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead. PFF & Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8608⇗Grove, Alfred W⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8649⇗Smith, Jack M⇗Completed MissionGroup lead. PFF & Gee-H ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8665⇗Ramsay, Walter E⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron lead. PFF ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8679⇗DeGennaro, Carlo Nicola⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
44‑8945⇗Abare, William Tebbs⇗Completed MissionLead Squadron hot camera ship.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗