384th 2025 REUNION
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Non-Credited Mission

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 16 February 1945
Eighth Air Force Operations Operations description not yet available.
Mission
Eighth AF Force Mission Number 833
Strategic Operations Continue
Previous Mission
The Eighth Air Force dispatched 375 B-17s to hit the Harpenerweg oil refinery at Dortmund (78), and oil refineries at Nordstern (104) and Minsterstein (112); 30 hit the marshalling yard at Münster, a secondary target; targets of opportunity are Langendreer (23) and other (2); bombing is by Gee-H with some visual. The 92nd Bomb Group was among the forces assigned to hit targets in the Dortmund area.
Primary Target Target: Coking Plant
Type: Oil Industry
Location: Dortmund, Germany
Target Attacked (Mode) Primary (Visual)
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 1
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗

1 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
Unknown[PILOT TBD]Completed MissionThe 384th Bomb Group provided a PFF/Gee-H Navigator to the 92nd Bomb Group, who was assigned to the Wing Lead aircraft: the aircraft and the remainder of the crew were provided by other groups.
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