SORTIE REPORT #10787
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 Completed Mission
Comments: High Squadron Deputy
Tertiary (PFF)
Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Halle, Germany
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 43‑38747 546th BK*N not known Flynn, James Francis
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Turner, Willard Jerome, III 544 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Smith, George W, Jr 544 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Naum, Robert Edwin 544 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Forristal, John Joseph 544 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Ruderman, Joshua Herman 544 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Jaeger, Melvin George 544 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Mollica, John Palmer, Jr 544 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Apedaile, Vernon Bernard 544 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Stover, Robert Harry 544 Completed, Uninjured
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