Service File · AircraftB-24J409th Bombardment SquadronMissing in Action
“Patches”
Serial
42-100334
Tail Code
YM
Radio Call
K · King
Catalogued Missions
11
The Ship
Patches served with the 93rd's 409th Squadron, carrying radio call letters O and later K. On March 5, 1945, while returning from a practice camera bombing mission over Norwich, she was struck by friendly anti-aircraft fire and ditched in the sea four to five miles off Clacton-on-Sea.
Sortie log.
11 flights · oldest first
Date
Target
Type
Pilot · Crew
06 MAR 1944
Genshagen
Industrial Area
Lt. Nisbet · 10 aboard
→
01 MAY 1944
Target unrecorded
Lt. Schnell · 10 aboard
→
06 MAY 1944
Siracourt
V-weapon Site
Lt. Gilbert · 10 aboard
→
08 MAY 1944
Brunswick
Unknown
Lt. Barkan · 10 aboard
→
12 SEP 1944
Hemmingstedt
Oil Refinery
Lt. Andrino · 9 aboard
→
25 SEP 1944
Koblenz/Mosel
Marshalling Yard
Lt. Baumann · 8 aboard
→
12 OCT 1944
Osnabrück
Marshalling Yard
Lt. Dobbs · 10 aboard
→
25 NOV 1944
Bingen
Marshalling Yard
Lt. McGuire · 8 aboard
→
06 FEB 1945
Magdeburg
Marshalling Yard
Lt. Gaston · 9 aboard
→
09 FEB 1945
Target unrecorded
Lt. Gaston · 9 aboard
→
03 MAR 1945
Magdeburg/Rothensee O/R
Oil Refinery
Lt. Litvak · 9 aboard
→
Photographs.
2 on file
Sources.
§ Provenance
Mike Bailey with Tony North · Midland Publishing Limited · 1998
Published
Edward McGuire · 0
Personal memoir
2nd Air Division · 2nd Air Division Digital Archive · 1944
Official record