Mission Roster

Date: 5 November 1943

Target: Gelsenkirchen

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Home base Target Aborted/recalled

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Participating listed aircraft

Aircraft	Crew	Unit	Notes
Bad Egg (41-24484) Aborted	Capt E M Lockhart (Pilot), N A Daniels (Co-Pilot)	91st Bomb Group, 401st Bomb Squadron	R/E (NS) - #4 eng cut out at 25000ft, jettisoned bombs
Damn Yankee (41-24557)	Sundlun (Pilot)	384th Bomb Group, 545th Bomb Squadron
Flak Wolf (42-3131)	E M Woddrop (Pilot)	303rd Bomb Group, 427th Bomb Squadron	Category A damage - flak
Lady Luck (42-29837)	Capt Ronald M Nichols (Pilot)	91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron	Cat A BD - shell cases
Little America (42-30033) Aborted	J A Van der Haeghen (Pilot)	384th Bomb Group	R/E (NS) - #3 eng malfunctioned + (BT) oxygen out
Meat Hound (42-29524)	D F DeCamp (Pilot)	303rd Bomb Group, 359th Bomb Squadron	Category A damage - flak
Oklahoma Okie (42-29921)	Dibble (Pilot)	91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron	Cat A - flak
Pistol Packin Mamma (42-30142) Lost	R M Walker (Pilot), W J Koenig (Co-Pilot)	388th Group, 560th Squadron	MISSING - No.2 feathered, No.3 smoking, 2 KIA, 1 evaded
Virgin Sturgeon (42-30334)	R R Rowland (Pilot)	390th Bomb Group, 570th Bomb Squadron
Winnie The Pooh (42-3422)	R W Morse (Pilot)	100th Bomb Group	Category A - flak damage
Winsome Winn II (42-29768)	D G Nelson (Pilot)	384th Bomb Group