USAAF Nose Art Research Project

Mission Roster

Date: 18 November 1943

Target: Kjeller Airfield, Oslo

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Target Confirmed loss/crash site

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
Helen Hywater (42-63971)
Lost		 Capt W B Weant (Pilot), Lt Col W H Brandon (Co-Pilot) 44th Bomb Group, 68th Bomb Squadron MISSING -- forcelanded at Trollhattan, Sweden, where crew immediately severed fuel lines and set a/c on fire