The 384th Bomb Group’s Mission #190 was the 8th AAF’s Mission #614.

My dad, George Edwin Farrar, participated as waist gunner in his ninth mission with the 384th Bomb Group on 9 SEPTEMBER 1944, flying with the 544th Bomb Squadron’s John Oliver Buslee crew.

The 384th Bomb Group was part of the 1st Bombardment Division, 41st Combat Wing, of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, and today they flew as part of the 41st “B” Combat Wing.

The 384th Bomb Group website’s Mission Summary describes the mission as,

Ludwigshafen – Again!
The 384th Bombardment Group (H) formed the B Wing of the 41st Combat Bombardment Wing for today’s mission. The primary target was a chemicals plant near Ludwigshafen, Germany. A visual attack was planned but a 10/10ths undercast required the Group to bomb using PFF aiming.

Mission documents identified the specific target of the day for the 41st “B” Combat Wing as a return trip to Ludwigshafen, home of the Chemical works of the IG Farben Industries, for the fourth time in the last four missions. It would also be the last time the 384th targeted Ludwigshafen.

The day’s Briefing Notes detailed the objectives of the mission with,

Visual: Large Chemical Works at Ludwigshafen, bombed several times by this group recently. Producers of many chemicals and poison gases. The relation of today’s target to the present land operations in Europe makes it of vital importance. Chemicals, Marshalling Yards, and as a supply center and the lines of communications concerned makes Ludwigshafen very important to the Germans at present.

PFF: RR Marshalling Yards in Mannheim, located just across the Rhine River from your primary visual target.

Last Resort: Any military target positively identified as being East, repeat East, of the Rhine River.

The briefing also stressed for the crews to,

Stay on alert for enemy aircraft, especially the new jet propelled jobs.

Empty your pockets before leaving. If forced down travel only at night and try to join allied forces in France. Stay off the railroads and main highways. If captured, give only Name, Rank, Serial Number.

Forty-one aircraft of the 384th Bomb Group were assigned to the mission. Of the 41,

• 33 completed the mission (not including spares)
• 2 aborted due to aircraft equipment failures
• 1 was scrubbed
• 2 flying spare, completed the mission
• 1 flying spare, returned as briefed
• 1 ground spare aircraft was unused
• 1 missing, crashed in enemy territory

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The aircraft that crashed was piloted by Joseph Hartness and carried the majority of the Roy Vinnedge crew, including ball turret gunner Raymond Orlando Wisdahl, the 384th’s combat data specialist Keith Ellefson’s uncle. They left the formation on return to base due to battle damage and crash landed in France near the town of Harville, Muse.

The entire crew evaded and returned to allied lines the next day. Tail gunner Delmar Beesley told the story of evasion to his family through a series of letters he wrote home. The letters were later compiled into one document and the fascinating story published here courtesy of Keith Ellefson on the 384th Bomb Group’s website.

After making their way back to their base at Grafton Underwood, most of the crew would not return to combat until the end of October and eventually completed their tours. However, Delmar James Beesley was sadly killed in action on 23 March 1945 on his thirty-fourth mission, one short of completing his tour.

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On Mission 190, the Buslee crew was part of the Lead Group led by Major George Henry “Snapper” Koehne, Jr.

The Buslee crew flew under these leaders on this date,

• Major George Henry “Snapper” Koehne, Jr., Lead Group Commander, 41st “B” Combat Wing and Senior Air Commander
• Major Gerald Busby Sammons, (not a mission participant), 544th Bomb Squadron Commanding Officer 14 September 1944 to 6 November 1944
• Col. Dale Orville Smith (not a mission participant), 384th Bomb Group Commander 23 November 1943 to 24 October 1944

The Buslee Crew Loading List for Mission #190, with the only crew substitution of navigator, was:

• Pilot – John Oliver Buslee
• Co-Pilot – David Franklin Albrecht
• Navigator – George John Jacobson
• Bombardier – James Buford Davis
• Radio Operator/Gunner – Sebastiano Joseph Peluso
• Engineer/Top Turret Gunner – Lenard Leroy Bryant
• Ball Turret Gunner – Erwin Vernon Foster
• Tail Gunner – Eugene Daniel Lucynski
• Waist Gunner – George Edwin Farrar (my dad)

George Jacobson replaced Chester Rybarczyk as navigator.

The Buslee crew was aboard the unnamed B-17 43-37822, the second of a trio of missions they would participate in on this ship, including their final mission.  The Tactical Interrogation form filled out by Lt. Buslee at the completion of the mission described,

• Time took off 0711
• Time landed 1418
• Target attacked at 1102 1/2 from an altitude of 25,000 ft.
• Bombs on target: 12 x 500 GPs
• A rocket and flak at several locations including the target
• Battle Damage: Minor damage.
• At 1113, observed a “B-17 from outfit ahead was seen going down, #4 engine smoking badly, no chutes.”

The James Brodie crew – James Brodie, Lloyd Vevle, George Hawkins, William Barnes, William Taylor, Robert Crumpton, Gordon Hetu, Wilfred Miller, and Harry Liniger – of the 545th Bomb Squadron flew on this mission in the Low Group aboard B-17 42-97309, Kathleen Lady of Victory.

This was the third of eight missions for the Brodie crew aboard Kathleen Lady of Victory.

The Brodie crew reported,

• Technical Failures, Aircraft: Leave nuts alone on chin turret.
• Battle Damage: Top turret glass broken.

Mission data in group reports included,

• Flak at the target was moderate to intense and fairly accurate. CPF and barrage type fire being employed. Black and white bursts observed.
• Fighter support fair in and about the target area.

Notes

The James Brodie crew left crew training at Ardmore, Oklahoma at the same time as the Buslee crew on their way to the ETO, European Theatre of Operations. Both crews were assigned to the 384th Bomb Group within days of each other after reaching England although the Buslee crew was assigned to the 544th Bomb Squadron while the Brodie crew was assigned to the 545th.

The two crews participated in many of the same missions, although it is unlikely that the men of the two crews interacted in any other way as they were members of different crews and different squadrons at Grafton Underwood, although they may have recognized each other from their time at Ardmore together.

• Previous post on Mission 190
• Thank you to the 384th’s Fred Preller and Keith Ellefson for obtaining and sharing WWII reports and mission documents from the National Archives for the 384th Bomb Group.
• Mission documents and other mission information may be found, viewed, and saved or printed courtesy of Fred Preller’s 384th Bomb Group website.

© Cindy Farrar Bryan and The Arrowhead Club, 2020

The 384th Bomb Group’s Mission #189 was the 8th AAF’s Mission #611.

My dad, George Edwin Farrar, participated as waist gunner in his eighth mission with the 384th Bomb Group on 8 SEPTEMBER 1944, flying with the 544th Bomb Squadron’s John Oliver Buslee crew.

The 384th Bomb Group was part of the 1st Bombardment Division, 41st Combat Wing, of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, and today they flew as part of the 41st “C” Combat Wing.

The 384th Bomb Group website’s Mission Summary describes the mission as,

Target Visible at Last Minute
The 384th Bombardment Group (H) formed the 41st Combat Bombardment Wing C Wing. There were broken clouds near the target area but, at the last minute, sufficient clear areas opened allowing the Norden bombsight to be used. The primary target was bombed using visual sighting, with good results.

Forty-five aircraft of the 384th Bomb Group were assigned to the mission. Of the 45,

• 30 completed the mission (not including spares)
• 4 aborted due to aircraft equipment failures
• 2 flying spare, completed mission
• 6 ground spare aircraft were unused
• 3 returned early

One of the aircraft landed post-mission with wounded aboard (the seriously wounded tailgunner aboard Vern Arnold’s ship – more on that below). None of the aircraft are missing.

Mission documents identified the specific target of the day for the 41st “C” Combat Wing as a return trip to Ludwigshafen, home of the Chemical works of the IG Farben Industries, for the third time in the last three missions.

In Ken Decker’s Memories of the 384th Bombardment Group (H), Second Edition, 384th Bomb Group bombardier Vern Arnold described the injury to the Edgar Bills’ crew tailgunner Keith Mauck, who he described as “one of the youngest on the crew and a very likable young squirt”. Arnold offers a glimpse of the hazards of WWII bombing missions.

I guess our luck was due to run out eventually and it finally happened on this one. Keith Mauck, our tail gunner caught a nasty chunk of flak through his ankle. I suppose we should be grateful that we got him back to the base alive. We debated about landing in France and trying to get him quickly to a hospital but decided that his chances were better if we took him back to the base where we knew he would receive immediate, excellent attention. He was given morphine for the pain and the waist gunners kept a tourniquet on him to slow the loss of blood. The burst that got him was one of those nearly direct hits that exploded just under the skin of the ship near the tail. It was so close that it spilled us up on our nose momentarily.

After a harrowing return trip to base – subsequent bursts took out one engine and the oxygen system, requiring them to drop out of formation and dive down to an altitude where they could breathe, and without the protection of the bomber stream and fighter escort – Mauck required several pints of whole blood and surgery and in the end lost his foot, finishing his tour of duty.

The Buslee crew was part of the High Group led by Captain William Adelbert Fairfield, Jr.

The Buslee crew flew under these leaders on this date,

• High Group Leader, Captain William Adelbert Fairfield, Jr., 544th Bomb Squadron
• Major Gordon Kenneth Stallings (Lead Group Commander), 41st “C” Combat Bombardment Wing Air Commander, 546th Bomb Squadron Commanding Officer 29 May 1944 to 30 September 1944
• Major Gerald Busby Sammons, (not a mission participant), 544th Bomb Squadron Commanding Officer 14 September 1944 to 6 November 1944
• Col. Dale Orville Smith (not a mission participant), 384th Bomb Group Commander 23 November 1943 to 24 October 1944

The Buslee Crew Loading List for Mission #189, with the only crew substitution in the ball turret, was:

• Pilot – John Oliver Buslee
• Co-Pilot – David Franklin Albrecht
• Navigator – Chester Anthony Rybarczyk
• Bombardier – James Buford Davis
• Radio Operator/Gunner – Sebastiano Joseph Peluso
• Engineer/Top Turret Gunner – Lenard Leroy Bryant
• Ball Turret Gunner – Irving Miller
• Tail Gunner – Eugene Daniel Lucynski
• Waist Gunner – George Edwin Farrar (my dad)

This would be the third time Irving Miller replaced Erwin Foster in the ball turret.

The Buslee crew was aboard B-17 42-97320, Hot Rock. The Tactical Interrogation form filled out by Lt. Buslee at the completion of the mission described,

• Time took off 0749
• Time landed 1542
• Target attacked at 1157 from an altitude of 29,000 ft.
• Bombs on target: 6 x 1000
• Flak at the target, below and at 9 o’clock black, white, barrage, accurate
• No battle damage reported
• Technical Failure, Aircraft: VHF reception on “A” channel weak
• Crew suggestion: Relief tube needed in A/C

The original members of the James Brodie crew of the 545th Bomb Squadron flew on this mission in the Lead Group aboard B-17 42-97309, Kathleen Lady of Victory with waist gunner Harry Liniger. The crew’s other original waist gunner had previously been transferred. Liniger would fly the remainder of the Brodie crew missions in the waist position.

This was the second of eight missions for the Brodie crew aboard Kathleen Lady of Victory. 

The Brodie crew reported,

• Technical Failures, Aircraft: Oxygen connection on right side of radio room is broken. Plugs for throat mike are both missing in waist position. Ball turret and waist guns froze at 28,000 feet. Ball turret guns have no heated covers. Tail gunner’s heated trousers inoperative. Radio operator’s jacket began smoking and continued to smoke until taken off.
• No battle damage reported.

Mission data in group reports included,

• No enemy aircraft observed and no attacks made on our formation
• Flak was moderate to intense and accurate at target. CPF & barrage type of fire being employed
• Fighter escort reported excellent

Notes

The James Brodie crew left crew training at Ardmore, Oklahoma at the same time as the Buslee crew on their way to the ETO, European Theatre of Operations. Both crews were assigned to the 384th Bomb Group within days of each other after reaching England although the Buslee crew was assigned to the 544th Bomb Squadron while the Brodie crew was assigned to the 545th.

The two crews participated in many of the same missions, although it is unlikely that the men of the two crews interacted in any other way as they were members of different crews and different squadrons at Grafton Underwood, although they may have recognized each other from their time at Ardmore together.

• Previous post on Mission 189
• Thank you to the 384th’s Fred Preller and Keith Ellefson for obtaining and sharing WWII reports and mission documents from the National Archives for the 384th Bomb Group.
• Mission documents and other mission information may be found, viewed, and saved or printed courtesy of Fred Preller’s 384th Bomb Group website.
• Vern Arnold also wrote the story of his WWII experiences in his book B-17 Bombardier – A History of An Air Crew Member of the 384th Bomb Group.

© Cindy Farrar Bryan and The Arrowhead Club, 2020

The 384th Bomb Group’s Mission #188 was the 8th AAF’s Mission #605.

My dad, George Edwin Farrar, participated as waist gunner in his seventh mission with the 384th Bomb Group on 5 SEPTEMBER 1944, flying with the 544th Bomb Squadron’s John Oliver Buslee crew.

The 384th Bomb Group was part of the 1st Bombardment Division, 41st Combat Wing, of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, and today they flew as part of the 41st “B” Combat Wing.

The 384th Bomb Group website’s Mission Summary describes the mission as,

German Industry Attacked
Thirty-six aircraft of the 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the 41st Combat Bombardment Wing B with thirty-five aircraft attacking the primary target. All aircraft attacking were in combat wing formation and released their bombs at 200 foot interval on the Wing Lead PFF aircraft.

Forty-seven aircraft of the 384th Bomb Group were assigned to the mission. Of the 47,

• 35 completed the mission (not including spares)
• 1 aborted due to personnel failure
• 4 were scrubbed
• 1 flying spare, completed mission
• 2 flying spare, returned as briefed
• 3 ground spare aircraft were unused
• 1 completed flight (weather aircraft)

Three of the aircraft landed post-mission with wounded aboard and one landed away due to battle damage. None of the aircraft are missing.

Mission documents identified the specific target of the day for the 41st “B” Combat Wing as Ludwigshafen, home of the Chemical works of the IG Farben Industries.

Mission documents included additional target information:

• Secondary Targets: None
• Targets of Last Resort: Any military objective in Germany positively identified outside of current bomb line and tactical boundary and not adjacent to a built-up area.
• Moderate opposition may be expected. Watch out for single and twin engine fighters, also jet jobs. Remember a good formation is the best insurance. The enemy will choose the time and place and altitude for the attack.

Mission documents also outlined instructions in the event of having to bail out for “P/W and Escape”:

• Name, rank, serial number.
• If in France, join our forces.
• If in area still occupied by Nazis lay low and wait for the Allied forces or work your way to the Allied Forces with help if possible.
• If in Germany, head for the French border and across.

This mission was a return trip to the Ludwigshafen Chemical Plant, the same as previous mission #187 just two days prior.

In Ken Decker’s Memories of the 384th Bombardment Group (H), Second Edition, 384th Bomb Group bombardier Vern Arnold again described the day.

I guess we didn’t do very well with our radar drop and since the brass consider this one very important, we are back at it again today. There were only a few tantalizing openings in the clouds and I’m afraid that we didn’t do a heck of a lot better this time. We hit the factory all right, but didn’t do as much damage as we wanted. The Germans didn’t have any trouble locating us this time and plastered us pretty good.

Arnold also expressed his confidence in his aircraft as,

Of course, if more than half of the pieces of a B-17 are still pretty close together, it will still fly!

The Buslee crew was part of the Low Group led by Capt. Edward William Lane.

The Buslee crew flew under these leaders on this date,

• Low Group Commander Capt. Edward William Lane, 384th Bomb Group Assistant Group Operations Officer
• Major Gerald Busby Sammons, Lead Group Commander, 41st “B” Combat Wing and Senior Air Commander, 544th Bomb Squadron Commanding Officer 14 September 1944 to 6 November 1944
• Col. Dale Orville Smith (not a mission participant), 384th Bomb Group Commander 23 November 1943 to 24 October 1944

The Buslee Crew Loading List for Mission #188, with the only crew substitution in the ball turret, was:

• Pilot – John Oliver Buslee
• Co-Pilot – David Franklin Albrecht
• Navigator – Chester Anthony Rybarczyk
• Bombardier – James Buford Davis
• Radio Operator/Gunner – Sebastiano Joseph Peluso
• Engineer/Top Turret Gunner – Lenard Leroy Bryant
• Ball Turret Gunner – Irving Miller
• Tail Gunner – Eugene Daniel Lucynski
• Waist Gunner – George Edwin Farrar (my dad)

This would be the second time Irving Miller replaced Erwin Foster in the ball turret.

The Buslee crew was aboard the unnamed B-17 43-37822, the first of a trio of missions they would participate in on this ship, including their final mission. The Tactical Interrogation form filled out by Lt. Buslee at the completion of the mission described,

• Time took off 0727
• Time landed 1531
• Target attacked at 1120 from an altitude of 23,000 ft.
• Bombs on target: 6 x 1000
• Flak at the target, CPF – accurate – black, white. Red flash inside of some of the black puffs.
• Battle damage: Flak holes in the wings [possibly, see image]

Buslee post-mission report, Mission 188

The original members of the James Brodie crew of the 545th Bomb Squadron flew on this mission in the High Group aboard B-17 42-97309, Kathleen Lady of Victory with waist gunner Harry Liniger. The crew’s other waist gunner, Leonard Opie, had flown his last mission with the Brodie crew on 24 AUGUST and had been transferred from the crew.

This was the second mission for the Brodie crew aboard Kathleen Lady of Victory. They would go on to fly eight missions aboard this ship and likely began to consider it “theirs.”

The Brodie crew reported,

• Flak/Battle Damage: Top turret glass broken (flak). 3 or 4 holes in A/C (stabilizer).
• #3 generator out. Was out at ground check.
• Radio mike button sticks. Failed at altitude.
• No G box in this A/C.
• Visual observations: At time of 1121 at the target and altitude of 23,650, Brodie observed a “Big explosion. Red flames & black smoke immediately after bombs away (gas or oil?). B-17 in CBW immediately behind this one had #2 engine on fire and was last seen going down into undercast, under control. No chutes seen.”

Mission data in group reports included,

• Fighter escort was close and very good.
• No enemy aircraft observed or encountered.
• Flak encountered at target only, was intense and accurate. Black, white, and red bursts noted. CPF of six to eight bursts encountered on approach to target and barrage directly over target.
• One to two jet propelled aircraft seen in Ludwigshafen area.

Notes

The James Brodie crew left crew training at Ardmore, Oklahoma at the same time as the Buslee crew on their way to the ETO, European Theatre of Operations. Both crews were assigned to the 384th Bomb Group within days of each other after reaching England although the Buslee crew was assigned to the 544th Bomb Squadron while the Brodie crew was assigned to the 545th.

The two crews participated in many of the same missions, although it is unlikely that the men of the two crews interacted in any other way as they were members of different crews and different squadrons at Grafton Underwood, although they may have recognized each other from their time at Ardmore together.

• Previous post on Mission 188
• Thank you to the 384th’s Fred Preller and Keith Ellefson for obtaining and sharing WWII reports and mission documents from the National Archives for the 384th Bomb Group.
• Mission documents and other mission information may be found, viewed, and saved or printed courtesy of Fred Preller’s 384th Bomb Group website.
• Vern Arnold also wrote the story of his WWII experiences in his book B-17 Bombardier – A History of An Air Crew Member of the 384th Bomb Group

© Cindy Farrar Bryan and The Arrowhead Club, 2020

The 384th Bomb Group’s Mission #187 was the 8th AAF’s Mission #602.

My dad, George Edwin Farrar, participated as waist gunner in his sixth mission with the 384th Bomb Group on his twenty-third birthday, 3 SEPTEMBER 1944, flying with the 544th Bomb Squadron’s John Oliver Buslee crew.

The 384th Bomb Group was part of the 1st Bombardment Division, 41st Combat Wing, of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, and today they flew as part of the 41st “C” Combat Wing.

The 384th Bomb Group website’s Mission Summary describes the mission as,

Chemical Works Attacked
Thirty-six aircraft of the 384th BG flew as the 41st CBW C Wing and all aircraft attacked the primary target, a chemical works at Ludwigshaven, Germany. All aircraft, in combat wing formation released their bombs at 250-foot intervals on the Wing PFF aircraft.

Forty-three aircraft of the 384th Bomb Group were assigned to the mission. Of the 43,

• 36 completed the mission (not including spares)
• 1 was scrubbed
• 3 flying spare, returned as briefed
• 3 ground spare aircraft were unused

None of the aircraft are missing.

Mission documents identified the specific target of the day for the 41st “C” Combat Wing as the Ludwigshafen Chemical and Explosive Works, the largest and most important in Germany. Total target area is 3 mi long and 3/4 wide, stretching along Rhine River from City of Ludwigshafen, which is immediately adjacent and to SW of target to _________ (unknown?).

Mission documents included additional target information:

• Our MPI is a square building about 125′ x 125′ lying in the lower third of the target area. This part of the target produces chlorine and sulfuric acid, both products being badly needed by Germany.
• The Secondary Target was PFF with same MPI.
• The Targets of Last Resort were Any military objective in Germany, positively identified outside current bomb line, and tactical boundary and not adjacent to a built up area. Caution about bombing bridges and marshalling yards.
• Enemy aircraft may be strong.

Following a nine-day gap between missions, the Buslee crew flew as part of the Low Group led by Captain Maurice Arthur Booska.

The Buslee crew flew under these leaders on this date,

• Captain Maurice Arthur Booska, Low Group Leader, 544th Bomb Squadron Commanding Officer 7 November 1944 through the Istres time period
• Major George Henry “Snapper” Koehne, Jr., Lead Group Commander, 41st “C” Combat Wing and Senior Air Commander
• Major Gerald Busby Sammons (not a mission participant), 544th Bomb Squadron Commanding Officer 14 September 1944 to 6 November 1944
• Col. Dale Orville Smith (not a mission participant), 384th Bomb Group Commander 23 November 1943 to 24 October 1944

The Buslee Crew Loading List for Mission #187 was primarily the original Buslee crew with two exceptions:

• Pilot – John Oliver Buslee
• Co-Pilot – David Franklin Albrecht
• Navigator – William Alvin Henson II
• Bombardier – James Buford Davis
• Radio Operator/Gunner – Sebastiano Joseph Peluso
• Engineer/Top Turret Gunner – Lenard Leroy Bryant
• Ball Turret Gunner – Irving L. Miller
• Tail Gunner – Eugene Daniel Lucynski
• Waist Gunner – George Edwin Farrar (my dad)

On this day, William Henson filled in for Chester Rybarczyk. This would be William Henson’s first time flying with the Buslee crew. It is unlikely Henson, in the nose of the aircraft, and Farrar, in the waist, would have talked to each other on this mission, but if they had, they would have learned that they were both from Georgia.

And if they started comparing stories from home, they might have discovered a family connection, that Henson’s wife, the former Harriet Whisnant from Summerville, Georgia, grew up next door to Farrar’s Uncle Baker, his father’s brother.

Irving Miller replaced Erwin Foster in the ball turret.

The Buslee crew was aboard B-17 43-38062, Pleasure Bent. The Tactical Interrogation form filled out by Lt. Buslee at the completion of the mission described,

• Time took off 0721
• Time landed 1538
• Target attacked at 1133 from an altitude of 25,000 ft.
• Bombs on target: 4 x 1000, 4 M17’s
• Flak reported at the target
• No enemy fighter opposition reported
• No battle damage reported
• No technical failures reported other than a radio tube was replaced in the interphone system.
• No armament failures reported

Mission data in group reports included,

Flak at target was mainly barrage, mostly low and to the right of the formation. Many crews said they seemed to be shooting at the chaff. Rockets were seen in the target area, they came up with very little spiral and burst at the top of the arc. All burst far above the formation, with bursts larger than that of flak and of a grey-white color.

Mission participant, Bombardier Lt. Vern Arnold, reported and was recorded by Ken Decker in his book, Memories of the 384th Bombardment Group (H), Second Edition, with the following statements.

The intelligence people had picked up rumors that the Germans were getting so desperate that they might resort to poison gas, hence, our assignment to the tremendous chemical plant at Ludswighafen…

…We used “chaff” (thin strips of tinfoil) for the first time. It must have worked very well as the flak gunners were blasting away at the clouds of tinfoil and not a single burst came within a couple of thousand feet of our formation.

Lt. Edward Peter Dudock may have disagreed with Arnold’s statement about the flak not coming near the formation as he reported three flak holes in the vertical stabilizer of his aircraft, 44-6080.

Notes

• Previous post on Mission 187
• Thank you to the 384th’s Fred Preller and Keith Ellefson for obtaining and sharing WWII reports and mission documents from the National Archives for the 384th Bomb Group.
• Mission documents and other mission information may be found, viewed, and saved or printed courtesy of Fred Preller’s 384th Bomb Group website.

© Cindy Farrar Bryan and The Arrowhead Club, 2020