USAAF Nose Art Research Project

Mission Roster

Date: 16 December 1943

Target: Bremen

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Home base Target Aborted/recalled

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
Flak Wolf (42-3131) D L Barnes (Pilot) 303rd Bomb Group, 427th Bomb Squadron
Meat Hound (42-29524) M L Smith (Pilot) 303rd Bomb Group, 359th Bomb Squadron Landed at RAF Newmarket.
Oklahoma Okie (42-29921) J Klotz (Pilot) 91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron Cat A - flak
Patty Jo (42-31242) DeJean (Pilot) 388th Bomb Group, 563rd Bomb Squadron Category A damage -- flak
Pistol Packin Mama (42-30609) W W McIntyre (Pilot) 95th Bomb Group, 335th Bomb Squadron
Virgin Sturgeon (42-30334) J L Warren (Pilot) 390th Bomb Group, 570th Bomb Squadron
Winnie The Pooh (42-3422)
Aborted		 Preuss (Pilot) 100th Bomb Group Returned early - no sortie credited