09 FEBRUARY 1945 · FRIDAY
Mission 824.Magdeburg/Rothensee.
Magdeburg, Germany
Intended Target
Magdeburg/Rothensee
Magdeburg, Germany
Operating Group
93rd BG
2AD
Aircraft Effective
10 / 378
effective / dispatched
Bomb Tonnage
23
tons
The cost.
§ Outcome
3
Ships Lost
14
Men Lost
The formation.
23 aircraft · tap a ship for its crew
PUnknown Donald R. Gaston
CP2Lt John L. Long
BF/O Chester Riggi
E-TTS/Sgt Jack T. Walton
ROT/Sgt James Berro
WGSgt Donald Geyer
WGUnknown Wilford W. Nelson
NGSgt Donald R. Oltman
TGSgt Arthur H. Welsand
Formation position 2-2; crew of 9 listed (no Bombardier — N-B combined role used)
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