USAAF Nose Art Research Project

Mission Roster

Date: 24 January 1944

Target: Frankfurt

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Home base Target

Dashed lines are straight-line approximations, not real flight paths - they give a rough sense of distance and time, not the actual route.

Participating listed aircraft

AircraftCrewUnitNotes
Boeing Belle (42-39867)
Aborted		 F Valesh (Pilot) 100th Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Squadron Tail wheel blown off by flak, (TG) POW. Landed @ RAF Eastchurch (see photo above)
Patty Jo (42-31242) L E Ranton (Pilot) 388th Bomb Group, 563rd Bomb Squadron
Sugar Blues (42-37939)
Aborted		 R V Maziarz (Pilot), P M Delo (Co-Pilot) 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Bomb Squadron
Virgin Sturgeon (42-30334) W J Harding (Pilot) 390th Bomb Group, 570th Bomb Squadron