02 MARCH 1944 · THURSDAY
Mission 244.Frankfurt Am Main.
Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
Intended Target
Frankfurt Am Main
Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
Actual Target
Frankfurt Am Main
As briefed
Operating Group
93rd BG
2BD
Aircraft Effective
36 / 154
effective / dispatched
Bomb Tonnage
98
tons
The cost.
§ Outcome
1
Ships Lost
16
Men Lost
The formation.
22 aircraft · tap a ship for its crew
P2Lt Norman A. Meggenkamp
CP2Lt Murray Markowitz
N2Lt Edwin Anderson
B1Lt Kenneth W. Shilling
ROT/Sgt Lowell L. Arnold
BTGSgt John D. McCulloch
ROS/Sgt Adam J. Straczewski
WGS/Sgt Alexander MacKenzie
WGSgt Eugene J. Niet
TGSgt Walter E. Ries
One row of crew data replaced by XXXXX redaction line between Bombardier and Engineer positions; likely an Engineer/Top Turret entry was crossed out or redacted.
Sources.
§ Provenance
2nd Air Division · 2nd Air Division Digital Archive · 1944
Official record
Mighty Eighth War Diary
Roger A Freeman · Jane's Publishing Company Limited · 1981
Published