Sortie2ADB-24Bombed Primary
42-50543.Over Roth.
Mission 932 · 08 April 1945 · Roth, Germany
Serial
42-50543
Unknown
Fuselage Code
AG
Squadron
330th
Ted's Traveling Circus
Aboard
3
men
The crew.
§ 3 aboard
The load.
§ 5,100 lb aboard
AN-M64
500-pounder
10× 500 lb
TypeGeneral Purpose · TNT/Amatol
Weight5,000 lb
FuzingRDX - Hughes Memoir
100lb Smoke Bomb
1× 100 lb
TypeSmoke
Weight100 lb
FuzingHughes Memoir
The flight.
§ Ship’s Record
The Day
Took off fromHardwick (Sta. 104)
Landed atHardwick (Sta. 104)
The Record
ResultBombed Primary
Record confidenceValidated against a source
Formation
Flew with330th Squadron
Fuel & Equipment
H2X scope photoNo
The target.
§ As Briefed
RothAirfield
LocationRoth, Germany
Notes.
§ From the Record
April 8th, 1945 was the 35th mission for Lou, Lee, and the pilot. Everyone else on the crew except Hendershot and Thorstenson had already finished their tours. The target was an airfield south of Nuremberg, one of the longest flights the crew had made. Fighters were reported in the area but none appeared. Flak was meager and inaccurate. It was a long, high-tension mission with nothing to show for the tension.
They touched down at Station 104 at 15:00 hours. For Crew 94A, the war was over. Nine months in England, 35 missions flown.