SORTIE REPORT #3301
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑05‑23 113 364 Target: Nancy/Essey Airfield
Type: German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Location: Nancy, France
Weather "NOT AS BRIEFED": The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew two group formations on today's mission, as the high groups of the 41st A and B Combat Bombardment Wings (41A Group and 41B Group). Both wings were assigned the same targets, and both Wing Leaders decided not to bomb the visual primary, electing to attack the briefed secondary using PFF aiming.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: 41B Group
Secondary (PFF)
Target: Railroad Marshaling Yards
Type: Transportation
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 42‑102620 546th BK*P DE RUMBLE IZER Clayton, Alfred George
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Peck, Harland Kenneth 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Jennings, William Cornelius 546 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Bell, Albert (NMI) 546 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Twomey, Jeremiah (NMI) 546 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Bowles, Charles Percy 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Sunshine, Morris Hyman 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Chapmon, William Theodore 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Allen, Wallace Frank 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Hunter, George Filmore 546 Completed, Uninjured
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