February 1945

 

Mission Number: #207
Date: 3 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Berlin
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc: Record number of planes in the air - 62. Also the first sighting of the advancing Russian Army.

 

Mission Number: #208
Date: 6 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Leipzig, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Looses: Capt. Robert Bloxham (505) weather, KIA
  Lt. Kessler Thomas (505) weather, KIA
  Lt. Gerald Plmer (505) weather, KIA
Misc:

 

Mission Number: #209
Date: 7 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Gladbeck, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc: Mission recalled due to weather

 

Mission Number: #210
Date: 9 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Leipzig, Germany
Claims: Lt. Ananain (505) 1 ME262 shot down
  Lt. Sainlar (504) 1 ME262 damaged in air
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc: First confirmed ME262 shot down by the 339th F.G.

 

Mission Number: #211
Date: 14 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Chemnitz, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc: one V-2 Rocket contrail seen.. so much strafing after the bombers were left that the 504th was out of ammo when they came across two airfields.

 

Mission Number: #212
Date: 16 February, 1945 Type: Area Patrol
Target Area: Hamm, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: F/O Cohen (504) Crash Landing
  Lt. Hendricks (504) Landing accident
Losses: Ø
Misc: 4 planes or 503rd were escorting a photo-recon plane to Frankfurt when 2 ME262's attacked, but they were able to escape by diving into the clouds. All returned safely.

 

Mission Number: #213
Date: 17 February, 1945 Type: P.T.W.S.
Target Area: Frankfurt, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc:

 

Mission Number: #214
Date: 19 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Osnabruck, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc: Several V-2 Rocket contrails seen in Zuider Zee area

 

Mission Number: #215
Date: 20 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Nurnburg, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Losses: F/O Cohen (504) mid-air collision, crash-landed. RETURNED
  Capt. Wells (504) mid-air collision, parachuted. RETURNED
  Lt. William Beecher (505) Vertigo, KIA
Misc:

 

Mission Number: #216
Date: 21 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Nurnburg, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Capt. Bryan (503) AA damage
  Lt. Farrell (503) AA damage
Losses: Ø
Misc:

 

Mission Number: #217
Date: 22 February, 1945 Type: P.T.W.S.
Target Area: Eger, Hof & Saalfeld Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Lt. Farrell (503) hit tree while strafing
Losses: Capt. Ray Herrmann (504) AA fire, KIA
  Cpt. Robert Wood (504) probably AA fire, KIA
Misc:

 

Mission Number: #218
Date: 23 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort, Support
Target Area: Neustadt, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Lt. Krauss (503) Mechanical
  Lt. Caywood (505) AA fire
Losses: Ø
Misc:

 

Mission Number: #219
Date: 24 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Bremen, Germany
Claims: Capt. Bline (505) 1 unidentified plane damaged on ground
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc: Unidentified plane was reported to be a B-17!

 

Mission Number: #220
Date: 25 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Munich, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Lt. Moreland (503) mechanical
Losses: Ø
Misc:

 

Mission Number: #221
Date: 26 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Berlin, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc:

 

Mission Number: #222
Date: 27 February, 1945 Type: Bomber Escort
Target Area: Leipzig, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc:

 

Mission Number: #223
Date: 28 February, 1945 Type: P.T.W.S.
Target Area: Kassel, Germany
Claims: Ø
Damaged: Ø
Losses: Ø
Misc:

 

 

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