SORTIE REPORT #3604
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: Low Squadron Lead.
Primary (PFF)
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 42‑97449 547th SO*B SWEETHEART
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Wortman, Marshall (NMI) 547 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Mulvehill, Edmund Whelan 547 Completed, Uninjured
Navigator Leverette, James Harold 547 Completed, Uninjured
Bombardier Shoolbred, Charles Ewen 547 Completed, Uninjured
Radio Operator Van Natter, William Burton 547 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Radtke, Hilbert Robert 547 Completed, Uninjured
Ball Turret Irwin, Robert Tait 547 Completed, Uninjured
Tail Gunner Malone, George Martin 547 Completed, Uninjured
Waist (Flexible) Gunner Simeone, Frank Joseph 547 Completed, Uninjured
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