SORTIE REPORT #3581
MISSION DATA:
DATE 384th BG Mission # 8th AF Mission # 384th PRIMARY TARGET
1944‑06‑02 122 384 Target: Gun Battery with six 155mm guns, Tactical Support
Type: Military
Location: Hardelot (5 miles S of Boulogne), France
Pre-Invasion Tactical Targets: Colonel Dale O Smith led the 384th Bombardment Group (H) as Group #1 of the 41st Combat Bombardment Wing on today's mission. The Groups of the Wing followed at 3 minute intervals, rather than the normal stacked Wing formation. The assigned target was attacked through solid cloud layers using PFF, with unobserved results.
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
Yes Completed Mission
Comments: High Squadron Deputy.
Primary (PFF)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME GROUND CREW CHIEF
B-17G 42‑102601 546th BK*K BOLO BABE Pierce, Howard Bundy
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Carey, Gates Chapman 546 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Bealer, John Levi 546 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Myers, Robert Stewart 546 Completed, Uninjured
Togglier Hedrick, Melvin Leroy 546 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Jordan, Theodore Joseph, Jr 546 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Vidrine, Wayne Francis 546 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Costello, Kenneth Harold 546 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Pettit, Frank Michael 546 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Robinson, Beauregard James 546 Completed, Uninjured
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