MISSION LOG

MILK WAGON---- B-17G-70-BO---- 43-37756
447th Bomb Group / 708th Bomb Squadron

According to the official records of 447BG, "Milk Wagon"
completed a total of 129 combat sorties, with no mechanical aborts,
prior to the cessation of hostilities.
We have only been able to identify 123. If you can offer any
further information on this aircraft, its crews and missions, photos, etc,
please make contact.

Date Pilot

Target
18 May 44     Delivered to Cheyenne Modification Center
27 May 44     To Kearney AAB. Nebraska
08 Jun 44     To Dow Field AAB and assigned overseas
09 Jun 44     Assigned to 447BG
20 Jun 44 E F Gibson Fallersleben First combat sortie
21 Jun 44 J E Young Berlin  
22 Jun 44 J E Young Abortive  
24 Jun 44 E F Gibson Bremen  
25 Jun 44 Lt Leitch Vercors Supply drop to French Resistance fighters
29 Jun 44 Lt Douglas Bohlen  
06 Jul 44 Lt Thorpe Berck airfeld  
07 Jul 44 J E Young Merseburg  
11 Jul 44 Lt Quintin Munich  
13 Jul 44 J E Young Munich  
14 Jul 44 J E Young Southern France Supply drop to French Resistance fighters
16 Jul 44 J E Young Stuttgart  
18 Jul 44 J E Young Kiel  
19 Jul 44 Lt Hawkins Eberbach  
20 Jul 44 J E Young Merseburg  
21 Jul 44 J E Young Regensburg  
24 Jul 44 Lt Mitchell St Lo (abortive) Tactical ground support
27 Jul 44 J E Young Ostend (abortive)  
01 Aug 44 Lt Lakeman South East France Supply drop to French Resistance fighters
02 Aug 44 J E Young Paris area  
04 Aug 44 Lt McKinley Ostend coastal defences  
07 Aug 44 R F Adams Anizy (abortive)  
08 Aug 44 J E Young Bretteville sur Laise  
09 Aug 44 J E Young Aachen Tactical ground support
11 Aug 44 J E Young Belfort rail yards  
13 Aug 44 J E Young Tactical Ground support
14 Aug 44 J R James Mannheim  
16 Aug 44 J F Noonan Rositz  
18 Aug 44 J E Young St Dizier airfield  
24 Aug 44 J R James Brux  
30 Aug 44 Lt Westrope Bremen  
01 Sep 44 Lt Westrope Abortive  
03 Sep 44 Lt Polansky Brest coastal defences  
05 Sep 44 Lt Westrope Brest harbour  
08 Sep 44 J F Noonan Mainz  
17 Sep 44 Lt Westrope Arnhem Flak towers in support of airborne drop
19 Sep 44 Lt Westrope Coblenz rail yards  
26 Sep 4 Lt Thomas Bremen  
27 Sep 44 Lt Russell Ludwigshaven Flew with 94BG composite formation
28 Sep 44 Lt Russell Merseburg  
02 Oct 44 Lt Westrope Kassel  
03 Oct 44 Lt Westrope Giebelstadt airfield  
05 Oct 44 Lt Tietjen Munster / Loddenheide Airfield
09 Oct 44 Lt Westrope Gustavburg  
12 Oct 44 Lt Westrope Bremen Lost #4 eng over enemy territory, turned back
14 Oct 44 Lt Westrope Cologne  
17 Oct 44 Lt Westrope Cologne  
18 Oct 44 Lt Westrope Kassel / Mittefeld  
19 Oct 44 Lt Tietjen Mannhiem  
22 Oct 44 Lt Wing Munster  
25 Oct 44 Lt Tietjen Hamburg / Harburg  
26 Oct 44 W C Huber Hannover  
30 Oct 44 Lt Wiggin Merseburg (recalled)  
02 Nov 44 W C Huber Merseburg 2Lt R Femoyer (N) awarded posthumous Medal of Honor
04 Nov 44 W C Huber Hamburg / Rhenania  
05 Nov 44 W C Huber Ludwigshaven  
06 Nov 44 Lt Russell Neumunster  
09 Nov 44 W C Huber French-German border  
16 Nov 44 Lt Lovett Duren Landed at Welford Park due to visibility
21 Nov 44 W C Huber Coblenz  
25 Nov 44 Lt Lund Merseburg  
30 Nov 44 Lt Hight Lutzkendorf  
10 Dec 44 W C Huber Coblenz / Lutzel  
11 Dec 44 W C Huber Coblenz rail yards  
12 Dec 44 Lt Middleer Darmstadt  
15 Dec 44 Lt Schwab Hannover rail yards  
24 Dec 44 W C Huber Babenhausen  
30 Dec 44 W C Huber Mannheim rail yards  
31 Dec 44 W C Huber Wenzendorf airfield Chaff a/c
01 Jan 45 W C Huber Dolbergen  
02 Jan 45 W C Huber Nalbach Tactical ground support
03 Jan 45 W C Huber Coblenz rail yards  
06 Jan 45 W C Huber Worms rail yard  
07 Jan 45 W C Huber Paderborn rail yard  
15 Jan 45 W C Huber Augsburg  
16 Jan 45 W C Huber Magdeburg Landed away
20 Jan 45 W C Huber Heilbronn rail yard  
29 Jan 45 Lt Dewey Kassel  
01 Feb 45 Lt Clark Wesel rail bridge Flew with 385BG formation
03 Feb 45 Lt Hammond Berlin Tempelhof  
14 Feb 45 Lt Clark Wesel rail bridge Chaff a/c
15 Feb 45 Lt Clark Cottbs rail yard  
16 Feb 45 Lt Clark Wesel rail bridge  
19 Feb 45 W C Huber Wesel rail bridge  
22 Feb 45 Lt Clark Aalen rail yard  
23 Feb 45 Lt Clark Crailsheim rail yard  
24 Feb 45 Lt Clark Bremen  
25 Feb 45 Lt Gurney Neuberg  
26 Feb 45 Lt Clark Berlin Alexanderplatz  
27 Feb 45 Clark Liepzig  
01 Mar 45 Clark Augsburg  
02 Mar 45 A N Jacques Dresden  
03 Mar 45 M S Maxwell Brunswick  
07 Mar 45 Clark Dattein-Emscher Lippe  
08 Mar 45 Lt Clark Frankfurt rail yard  
09 Mar 45 Lt Clark Frankfurt airfields  
10 Mar 45 Lt Clark Dortmund rail yard  
11 Mar 45 Lt Clark Hamburg  
12 Mar 45 Lt Clark Marburg rail yard  
14 Mar 45 M S Maxwell Hannover / Gebruder  
17 Mar 45 Lt Gurney Ruhland  
18 Mar 45 Lt Dankmyer Berlin  
19 Mar 45 Lt Dankmyer Zwickau  
20 Mar 45 E N Warren Hamburg  
21 Mar 45 A N Jacques Wittmundshafen airfield  
22 Mar 45 Lt Clark Military camp  
23 Mar 45 Lt Clark Holzwickede  
24 Mar 45 Lt Roberts Varrelbusch airfield  
28 Mar 45 Lt Clark Hannover rail yard  
30 Mar 45 Lt Gurney Hamburg  
31 Mar 45 S L Radus Salzwedel airfield  
03 Apr 45 S L Radus Kiel  
04 Apr 45 S L Radus Kiel  
09 Apr 45 Lt Clark Neuberg airfield  
10 Apr 45 Lt Clark Brandenburg airfield  
11 Apr 45 Lt Dankmyer Ingolstadt airfield  
14 Apr 45 Lt Clark Royan  
15 Apr 45 Lt Clark Royan defences Carried napalm
16 Apr 45 Lt Clark Royan harbour  
17 Apr 45 M S Maxwell Dresden  
19 Apr 45 T D Maxwell Dresden rail yard  
20 Apr 45 Lt Clark Neuruppin rail yard  
21 Apr 45 Lt Clark Ingolstadt rail yard 129th combat mission -- highest in 447BG
09 Jul 45     Returned to Bradley Field, USA
13 Jul 45     To RFC Kingman, Arizona, for scrapping
       

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