03 JANUARY 1945 · WEDNESDAY · STATION 104Bombed T/O
Mission 778.Altstadt.
Altstadt, Germany
Intended Target
Altstadt
Altstadt, Germany
Takeoff Base
Hardwick
Station 104
Landing Base
Hardwick
Station 104
Aircraft Effective
31 / 325
effective / dispatched
Bomb Tonnage
89.1
tons
The route.
§ Takeoff to Target
Bearing Out
108° T
Bearing In
292° T
The formation.
1 aircraft · tap a ship for its crew
PCapt Edward L. McGuire
CP2Lt Victor H. Hanf
E-TTT/Sgt Cornelius J. Leach
ROS/Sgt Donald M. South
WGS/Sgt William H. Gardner
WGS/Sgt Edward S. Powell
TGS/Sgt Barney C. Eller
NGS/Sgt Theodore F. Szajna
Last of three Hamburg trips. Heavy contrails, soup flying at 30,000 ft, -42 C, near stall speed with 10 degrees flaps. Bombs salvoed approximately 5 minutes from Hamburg, likely north rather than west of the city. McGuire notes he believes his hand-out label '#6' was an error.
Sources.
§ Provenance
Mighty Eighth War Diary
Roger A Freeman · Jane's Publishing Company Limited · 1981
Published