SORTIE REPORT #10765
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1945‑03‑31 301 920 Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Lützkendorf, Germany
Division Bombs Tertiary Target: Due to adverse weather conditions, Division ordered our formations to bomb the tertiary target. Leaving the target area as briefed, they encountered the 3rd division making a bomb run on Merseburg, but avoided mishap.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Spare, Completed Mission
Comments: Low Squadron flying spare; joined formation.
Tertiary (PFF)
Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Halle, Germany
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 42‑107125 ⇗ 545th JD*G DOASY DOATS
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Carpenter, Dean Edward⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Norskog, Vincent Lee⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Ladendorff, Edmund (NMI), Jr⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Cobb, Raymond Bruce⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator King, Paul Ralph⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Fulcher, Harold Quillian⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Calhoun, William Ernest, Jr⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Franks, Herbert Hassell⇗ 545 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Bronzetti, Warren John⇗ 544 Completed, Uninjured
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