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MISSION N0. /26 ·

To: LuxEMBOURG, GERMANY

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REPORT OF OPERATIO.AL

DAY

MISSION SUIMlRY REPORT

JIISSION :f} 126 Date 9 Auguat 19.U

ASSIG:rmENT

l . Aaaigncd rarget1 Jr!UIICH, GERVA.JlY

2. C-.ni tmenta a The 4-0lat n.a to :f'urniah the Lead and Low- 12 Ajc boxea of th3 9"th "A" CBW. 2 PFF A~ -.intained by the S6lat Group were furniahed for the Lead Box. A apare n.a to aoo~any each formation.

krounoN 1/ 1\Jrget Bombeda LTJXEJ!J.JOORG, LUX. ( 1farahallin Yrada) .

2 . a • Wing Leader a

Lead Navigators

Lead BCJJilbardiera

b . ~ Box Leader J

Lead Na.rlgatora

~. Flight .2!!!:. England•

a . Takeof.t'a

Lt. Col . W. E. SEAWELL (Kalinak1)

lat Lt. W. ll. EATOB

lat Lt. O. H. MINOTT

lat Lt. JO. 0. LINCOLN

lat Lt. F. W. RICKS

lat Lt. S. J. nlNILAVEZ

T&keof.t' and assembly were as briefed. Weather over England n.a better than that briefed :..o that no difficulty was encountered.

b . Group a.nd Wing Auemblya

Doth the Low and High Box Leaders moved into good Wi ng positions prior to departure from point Vi. Sinoe point W wa1 departed approx• inately two minutes late the next point on aseembly rout~~t was out abort in order to make good division assembly.

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Mission Summary Report (Cont'd)

c. Route to Coaata

94th "A" CBW was a little late at Division assembly line so we turlted wide at the :first point and 94th "A" out short to mow in ahead. The F.nglish Coast wa1 depar~d on course, one minute late. We were in eaetwe~ correct Division formation, being last.

4 . Attacks

a. Flight to Targets

Inside the Ennr,y Coast high clouds were evident so the climb waa continued above the bri:f'ed 20,000 feet, level. 'l'he DiTision Leader reported he w1u in it but could ma.ntain :formation without too 11111oh difficulty. We entered the thin cloud formation at about 2~,600 and climbed to 25,000 but still remained in it . At times the other two boxes were not visible but ships in the Lead Group in general remained visible. Additonal di:f':f'iculty was encountered since the preceding Wings lett heavy contrail for.mations . Finally the Division Leader determined to turn back and strike targets of opportunity. All other Will.bB which heard him on VHF follored suit. WI received autlientication and :followed suit. We turned back in the vicinity of. control point H S(Zweibuchen, Germany). 94th "A" CBN had been deecending during the conversation with the Division Leader in an et:f'ort to obtain visibility for bombing. Prior to descent the High Box pulled away :f'roa formation, etarted descent and was broken up. Six airoratt from the H1gh Box joined the Tfing :formation, making 18 ships. e made a run at 20,000 feet on the rail yards at Neunbircken, Germany. Visibility was so bad a success­ful ai~hting could not be made and no bombs were dropped. 1he Wing Leader then told the navi ator to tnke the Wing t o the marshalling yards at Luxembourg which wae )morn to be a very good target. Visibility was not good but we hamed on the target with PJF and the bombardier picked up the yards when about ten miles out. Good re­aul ta were obtained by both Lead and Law Boxe1. The six aircraft f'rOIIl the High dropped on the Wing Lead bombardier.

b. Bombing Runa

LeadBoxa

Upon receiving t he recall me1eage telling ue not to bomb the priary ani to return to the Ba1e, we decided, since we were over Gena.ny, to look for a Tar et of Opportunity. We were heading about 1100 at the time and sighted the city of Neubriche~. ITe made abe turn, now heading about 300°, ani 11Ulde a bamb run on the city but because of the very heavy haze and the ahort bomb run, synchronizat ion was not perfected so the bombs were not dropped.

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~ation Summary Report {Cont•d)

4. b . Bombi ng Run, ~Box Cont'd.

We knn of the large -r•b.allinc yarda a.t Luxenbourg,. about 60 mile• to the .eet s o we headed for there. Baee 1tlll made "ri.libil• ity very poor but a t;ood long run was made and the bomb• 1t'8re dropped on a gaetic heading of 2760 at l0a,6. Re1ult1 were excellent.

LOW' Boxa

We followed in Wing formation until the Wing Leader called to eay they were going to bomb t he mar1halling yard• at Luxenbourg. Then we did in trail a.nd made our own run. ll&ving been to the target about ~ aonths previoualy ,. the target wa1 very familiar to us. e ttayed a reaaonabl e diatance behind the Lead Box so that we could see wha.t they cboN for an MPI and 10 tha.t we cauld chooae a.nout her point. They hit the junction of t he S branches of tracke and we knew t he 2 big ro dhou.aea were damaged oonaiderably the laat time we were t here eo we aimed at t he branch of tracka on tbt right eide becauae it looked like there .. re a lot of oil and re­gular railroad cars t here. The bombu were dropped wit h excellent retult t, the entire pattern coverinG the a.rea very well.

o. Flight~ 1'ar5eta

A1"ter bombs away the in& olillbed to 2Z, 600 to get over a bank of olo~ds on the route back. ~he briefed route wae intercept ed and held tor the remainder of t he return. Deacent from 23,500 was be­gun in t he vicini7;;y of t he Enerq Coast .

d. Return to Baee •

Deeoent waa continued over the channel. Return to base waa made at 2,600 i"eet unde r t he low broken cloud layer. !formal land -i ng aocaa~pliehed, all a1rcraf't landing aatley a* home base.

e. iYeat hers

High thin cloud !'onnati ona were enoountere i na1de the ~ Coast . Dente contrails !'roc preceding formation• werA present. (See preoeedlng narrative f or other weat her encountered)

t . Fieter Support a

Fighter suppor t waa ood throughout the million.

&• Conclueioll.l and Recommendat ion• t

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lliuion Su-.ry Report (cont'd)

1 . Airoratt !!! Attaokin§a

Lead Baxa

1./C U • lO'f009. Sortie. Beoauae ot engine trouble A/C bad to jettison ita bfabs about six minutes betcre target. (Jiechanioal)

LGtr Box a

A/C ·U-106992 . Bot Sortie. Material tailure of :fF • oil oooler oaua•ng exceaaive oil leakage. (Mec~oal }

A/C 4eS..ST628 . Sortie . Dropped bomba ~It target . (PeraoDD81)

6 . JDn;r Oppoaitlon a

Jro air oppoli tion. (See flak report tar n&k)

1 . Battle Da-.ge a

8 . Caaualtieaa

lone.

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9. Statiatioal BU~D~ary of Operationa . ( See attached tora)

10 . Bc.bing ~·

a . Q)aerTationaa

Lead Baxa

Reaulta were excellent. baabfall hitting yard• directly.

Low Boxa

Reaulta were excellent. the entire pattern ooTeriug the area Tery well.

b . Diapoaitioa ot Boabaa

Lead Boxa

ot the ten 40lst A/C Df. nine dr~pecl 90 X 600 GPBDX on Luzenbourg. A/C 009 loat an engine 6 ai!Ultea before target and jettiaoned 10 X 500 RDX. Both PP'.F A/C dropped 20 X 600 GP on target. The spare returned 1 ta •oad of 10 bombs.

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llinien Summary Report (Cont'd)

10. b . Cont'd.

Low Bema

Ot tho twel 'ft A/C .EE! eleven dropped 110 X 500 GP- RDX on Luxeabourg. A/C 628 .t'ailing to drop on the target jettiaoned 10 X 500 RDX t miDute past target . the aborti ng Al C returned 10 X 600 RDX to base.

o. tabular Summary of Dispositi on ot Ba.baa

Airoratt BGIIiba BVer BCiib- F\ieing !l'arget ing

IUil­ber Sise !ype Noae t.il

Hain BCBbt all

other Attaokaa

total BG11ba on target•

othe r Expenditures

Bomba Returned

22

'fot al Loaded on A/C Taking ot~

200

-200

20

20

240

5oof GP.-a!>X 1,/10 1/100

6001/: GP-RDX 1/10 1/100

600/J: RDX 1/10 1/100

5~ RDXQ lf!O 1f!OO

•ooH: GP-RDX 1/10 1/100

• hol a ppF A/C dropping 20 X 600/f GP on target.

11. Lost Airora.tta

I one.

Subai.tted Bya

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DB 11'. DA UBLE, Captain, Air Corpa, Statiatioal Ottioer •

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STATISTICAL :;•JMMARY OF . OPERATIONS

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lOlst~p 1st BD f.'~ 0. 466 ·nate of 9 August 1944

94th "An COW

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5. No. Clf A/C -~!~~~kin€L_ __

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7 . Name of Pri~. 1'a.t.gtl_ ..

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(b) Nt'l . 1 Size &. ~...;;e___;.o..;;..f_B_o.:.:m:.:..:b._s-tt----+-----H-----+------++------.

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(b) I I No. 1 Size &_.ID.~. Qf ~-ombs " C-..

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(b) No . 1 Siz.e &. type of Bomb I .. _ .. j

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_!~-·~o of A_/C _Lost - TOTAL Bo~-·-~o_n_e--+1- None

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'· I .l~..._ - to Enemy A/C ~---····- -1----16 . - to Accident ! - -· - - ------t--------+t-----

17. - to Unknown ,1 ____ j__·-----++-

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STAT SUMMARY (C ent 'd )

-·--- ~---- . .... .. ___ _ -- ---n---Lead Low

•• I ,., 0654: 0655 f I lBo Time of Take~f _ _ _ _ __ .,.. ______ ""fa ... ~

"' 19. Time of ;,_ ttack ! 1046 1046

----· ., 68 6 . 9 f ?lir;ht ' 21 . Average TiM~_o

\' 19. 560 19 , 626 l t:e. s e . 21 . Al titude of F~

... --..,.--- ... 22. Visual or P:&'.r' Visual Visual

co - JJ~ Int.&.AC< None Bone • - · ... - -. - --

k • Fio-hters None None -·~-·

25. - . P mnb '3rs None l one

·-·-~·---- .. .. ':y Enomy I .. jc None Hone

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•. t Excellent I Excellent !;SS ' ---· ... - ~ ... ---~"'-::-r::~'"" .i$-.;=;tc=:::);- . :::>:t'- -27 n~greP of Su~c ... _ .. _ ___ . ___ .. _ - ··-· --..

PFF A/C Bor rO"N0d .T't om Groups as fo~h ows: 2 PFt' A/C rrom 35l et Grpup . (Asgnd to 4:0l st - maintained by 35lst)

• PFF A/c Lonncd t o G:: oups ns Fellows!: None .

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~UARTERS AAF STATION #128 OFFICE OF THE ~AVIGATION OFFICER

__ _.9_Aupt...,......._ __ _:l944

SUBJECTs Lead Navigator ' s llarrative

fO I Commanding Officer. 40lat Bombardment Group (B)

1.

.2.

Flight plan, Log, and Track Chart Attached.

llarrativea

•• T/0 at 0654 hOUTl' J Land at 1.305 hour••

b. Group formed at rJ'fSO hours at u~oo teet.

Oe Formed CBW at Ul~ houra at llOOO teet.

d. Began climb at __ 0816 hours J reached alt. at 0949 boure.

e. Weather encounte.r~d over Englanda

(1) Clouda 0 I lOth - Visability 10 milet,

(2) Wind at altitude ~ degree a. a. Knota,

t • Means of navigation over England. __ ...;Gii:=:u•a..· .:IW>z.z:alaO&•oooo~P~.~nm-IMI'•G'------•

b, Joined task force at 0131 hrs. at 'fr·¥11~ ij (Spia?:r ,l , Coord.)

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1, inglish Coast out at MU hr&eJ Enemy Coast in at gm hra. ---... ~--j,

k.

Fighter Rendezvoust

{1) Going in hra..

(2) Coming back hrs.

Wind used for bombing a

(l) _ .... m.._ ___ degrees~ _.....,..M-. ___ Knots.

(2) Determined by ----.-:-~•-.~r----------· (Method)

1. Bomb run and Method of Target Identiticationa

(1) Reached IP at ~~~ hrs. (2:) llag. heading overat·ge1! - degrees. (3) Altitude over target ?3000 f eet. (4) Bombs ~wa.y at ~Q't nrs. ( 6) Method of targe 1 ent !fication and weather over targeta

Pn.c'T\GE t.JI) UICIIJ

m. Geea (1) Coordinates of furthest fix JQ 4, H. (2) Obtained at '*' hour a-• ...,.......,_..,__

n. Dif fi cultie s encount er ed ~th special equipment.

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HEADQUARTF.RS AAF STATION #128 OFFICE OF THE NAVTGATION OFFICER

SUBJECT a Lead Navigator • s Uarrati ve

TO 1 · Commt~.ndir.g Officer D 40lst Bombardment Group (H)

1. Flight plan, Log , and Track Chart Attached •

. 2. llarrati ve a

•• T/0 at a6SS hour~ J Land at l3l ' hour••

b. Group formed at 0@ hours at JQOO') teet.

o. Formed CBl'l at OPM houra at · J~ teet.

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d. Began climb at _..Qe22 hours s ree.ched alt. at a2:U e. Weat.her encount~r~d over Englanda

(1) ClouJs e-10 I lOth - Viaability 5-10 Ddlel.

houre.

(2) Wind at altitude _30..,..a __ degree•• __.4 .. 5.__ __ Knot••l.An)()•; vel. not r eliable

t. Ileana of. navigation over England. Goe , PR. Pilot.vc •

g. Means ot checking Metro Winds ----~~Get ... '---------------• h, Joined task force at --ce~~~J~hrs, •

i, &nglish Coast out at 0043 hrs,J Enemy Coast in at _..0.,.9J.--..6 ___ hre.

j, Fighter Rendezvous ~

(1) Going i n Q916 hra.

(2) Coming back JJL 5 hrs.

k. Wind used for bombinga

(l) _ _.2L,..,.L__ degrees, ___ a> _____ Knots.

(2) Determined by ____ .JolJ~e~t..,.m"',,..~sh~IQk-o ... d.._Q'r ...... ~Ga.a.---· -(Me t;liod)

1. Bomb run and Method of 7arget Identitieationa

(1) Reached IP at J0~6 . hrso (2.) llag. heading over target <93 degrees. {~) Altitude ovor target ___zoopa feet. ( 4) Bombs away at +GLP _ ilrs. (6) Method of targe-.; l:on'..:~i'"ication and weather over targeta

NU cloa~e btiow. Via. - restricted hc!"izon in haze .

m. Geet (1) Coordinates .,r furthest f!.x S' -20 (2) ObtP.ined at 1126 hours.

N • _ _.ooii$•-a>...,...._E •

n, Difficulties encountere~ ~ith special equipment.

None

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G•inrn9 RATE ............ sees /hour Losing

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Distress Action - Maximum Fix 2112N-0~22E

SECTION TWO - REPORTED EQUIPMENT DEFICIENCIES

Liaison

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SECTION THREE - REMARKS

HAROLD M. KENNARD. JR . Capt , Air Corps , Gp Conun 0.

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OFFICE OF THE ENGINEERING OFFICER STATION 128

APO 557

9 August 1944:

SUBJECT: Battle Damage Report

TO: Engineering Officer, 40lst Bombardment Group {H), Station 128, APO 557, u. s. Army

1. The following is the battle damage report for the airplanes operated by this Squadron on the combat mission completed this date.

AIRPLANE NO.

42-97487

42-31087

42-97162

42-102393

43-37628

BATTLE DAMAGE

1. Flak hole in leading edge of left wing near station 25.

2. Flak hole in leading ed&e of le.ft wing near station 16.

3. Flak hole in right elevator near station 62, in bottom out top.

1. Negative.

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~ m./Lv... -.4. P' HERBERT 0. KIKUEL '­Capt, Air Corps Engineering O.fficer