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24 FEBRUARY 1944 · THURSDAY
Mission 233.
Gotha.
Gotha, Germany
Intended Target
Gotha
Gotha, Germany
Operating Group
93rd BG
2BD
Aircraft Effective
169 / 239
effective / dispatched
Bomb Tonnage
372
tons
The cost.
§ Outcome
33
Ships Lost
3
Men Lost
The formation.
23 aircraft · tap a ship for its crew
42-99994
“Beaver's Baby”
Tail GO · 328th Sq. · Pilot Patterson
10 aboard
›
42-40969
“Big Noise”
Tail AG · 330th Sq. · Pilot Mazure
10 aboard
›
42-99943
“Zoot Snoot / Swamp Yankee”
Tail YM · 409th Sq. · Pilot Thompson
10 aboard
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42-100236
42-100236
Tail ??-Z · Unknown Squadron Sq. · Pilot Case
9 aboard
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42-100370
“Missouri Sue”
Tail YM · 409th Sq. · Pilot Baxter
10 aboard
›
XX-XX248
XX-XX248
Tail ??-F · Unknown Squadron Sq. · Pilot Robbins
10 aboard
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42-7585
“Hell Cat, The”
Tail YM · 409th Sq. · Pilot Forth
10 aboard
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XX-XX563
XX-XX563
Tail ??-N · Unknown Squadron Sq. · Pilot Krause
10 aboard
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42-73503
“Marion”
Tail YM · 409th Sq. · Pilot Atkinson
10 aboard
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XX-XX345
XX-XX345
Tail ??-U · Unknown Squadron Sq. · Pilot Rujawits
5 aboard
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42-73495
“Old Hickory”
Tail AG · 330th Sq. · Pilot Bullock
10 aboard
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42-100323
42-100323
Tail AG · 330th Sq. · Pilot McCartie
10 aboard
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A/C
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P
1Lt
Walter W. McCartie
CP
2Lt
Greenwood G. Gay
N
2Lt
James V. Vitale
B
2Lt
William R. Kramer
E-TT
T/Sgt
Jerold W. Brown
RO
T/Sgt
Winsor H. Reels
BTG
S/Sgt
David B. Ziff
WG
S/Sgt
Thomas E. Daley
WG
S/Sgt
Edgar A. Puryear
TG
S/Sgt
Eugene T. Cole
42-9974
42-9974
Tail ??-L · Unknown Squadron Sq. · Pilot Harris
10 aboard
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42-100116
42-100116
Tail AG · 330th Sq. · Pilot Breen
10 aboard
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42-40985
“Georgia Peach”
Tail AG · 330th Sq. · Pilot Wagner
10 aboard
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42-100309
42-100309
Tail AG · 330th Sq. · Pilot Segars
10 aboard
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42-109832
“De-Icer”
Tail ??-N · Unknown Squadron Sq. · Pilot Boone
10 aboard
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42-7504
“Bucket 'o' Bolts”
Tail AG · 330th Sq. · Pilot Burk
10 aboard
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42-74437
42-74437
Tail ??-B · Unknown Squadron Sq. · Pilot Litwiller
10 aboard
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42-100150
“Sweater Gal”
Tail AG · 330th Sq. · Pilot Depke
10 aboard
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41-28590
41-28590
Tail GO · 328th Sq. · Pilot Conedera
10 aboard
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42-99939
42-99939
Tail GO · 328th Sq. · Pilot Barrett
10 aboard
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42-99937
“Reddy Teddy”
Tail GO · 328th Sq. · Pilot Tedford
10 aboard
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Sources.
§ Provenance
Load List
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