Mission Roster

Date: 30 December 1943

Target: Ludwigshaven

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Home base Target

Dashed lines are straight-line approximations, not real flight paths - they give a rough sense of distance and time, not the actual route.

Participating listed aircraft

Aircraft	Crew	Unit	Notes
Bad Egg (41-24484)	H H Evers (Pilot), F/O P G McDuffee (Co-Pilot)	91st Bomb Group, 401st Bomb Squadron
Boeing Belle (42-39867)	F Valesh (Pilot)	100th Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Squadron	Category Ac damage - mg fire. Landed @ RAF Lympne
Devil's Ball (42-31238)	D E Watson (Pilot)	351st Bomb Group, 511th Bomb Squadron	Chemical & explosives factory
Lady Luck (42-29837)	2Lt Edwin F Close (Pilot), Maj R W Weitzenfeld (Co-Pilot)	91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron	Group lead a/c
Patty Jo (42-31242)	L E Ranton (Pilot)	388th Bomb Group, 563rd Bomb Squadron
Sugar Blues (42-37939)	D Bradford (Pilot), R Mersereau (Co-Pilot)	91st Bomb Group, 323rd Bomb Squadron	Category A damage -- 20mm
The Shamrock Special (42-29591) Aborted		91st Bomb Group, 401st Bomb Squadron	R/E - (NS) spare?
Virgin Sturgeon (42-30334)	W J Harding (Pilot)	390th Bomb Group, 570th Bomb Squadron	Category A flak damage
Winnie The Pooh (42-3422)	Davis (Pilot)	100th Bomb Group