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461st BG (H), Mission 13, Bad Voslau Airdrome - Related Files

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	461st BG (H), Mission 65, Munich - Oberschleissheim Aerodrome 19 July 1944 Success still crowned the efforts of Major Burke as a Group leader on the difficult mission to the Schleissheim Airdrome Installations at Munich. The target was partially obscured by clouds and the flak holed eighteen of the twenty-three planes over the target, but 43 percent of the 1000 pound general purpose bombs were within 1000 feet of the briefed aiming point.		05/16/2007	327
	461st BG (H), Mission 56, Aviano Oil Storage 6 July 1944 The target for Mission No. 56, which was approximately 600 feet square, was probably the smallest target ever assigned to this Group. It was an oil storage plant in open country near an airdrome at the Town of Aviano, Italy. Major Burke continued to be the fair-haired Group leader when a score of 48 percent was recorded for this mission. Then 1st Lt. Ausbon E. Aldred...		05/14/2007	348
	461st Bomb Group (H), Mission 202, Wels Airdrome 25 March 1945, Target: Wels Airdrome, Austria MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO) STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): In Czechoslovakia, 650+ B-17s and B-24s strike 2 airfields and a tank works at Prague (the patterns of the bombs also hit 2 other nearby airfields) and an airfield at Cheb. Alternate targets that are bombed include Wels, Austria and Ud...		06/03/2009	225
	461st BG (H), Mission 88, Markersdorf Airfield 23 August 1944, Target: Markersdorf Airdrome, St. Polten, Austria The third frag job of the month against enemy airdromes. The target was the Markersdorf Airdrome at St. Polen, Austria. The first string of frags started at the Southwest corner of the airdrome and continued northeast to the service apron, the second string fell across the western half of the airdrome. Seven ene...		11/21/2009	12
	461st BG (H), Mission 60, Nimes Marshalling Yard 12 July 1944 By the 12th of the month several of the crews had completed their fifty sorties. Upward of 100 combat crew members had been sent back to the United States on a rotation basis. Other crews were at rest camps. The number of crews available, consequently, was limited. For this mission it was decided to fly a formation of four flights instead of the customary six flight...		05/15/2007	322
	461st BG (H), Mission 51, City of Bucharest on Pathfinder 28 June 1944 With the intentions of cutting the railroad lines connecting Bucharest and Ploesti, the Air Force again assigned the Chitila Marshalling Yard at Bucharest to the Group as a target. As has been the case on many of the missions which Colonel Glantzberg had led, poor weather hindered the success of the mission. A great deal of bad weather was experienced en route to th...		05/14/2007	379
	461st BG (H), Mission 46, Szony Oil Storage 14 June 1944 The Air Force was still slaving away at German oil. The Group bombardiers were still hot. With CAVU weather, no enemy fighters, and only slight flak the 461st got 39 percent of its bombs within 1000 feet of the center of impact on the oil storage installations at Szony, Hungary.		05/14/2007	327
	461st BG (H), Mission 119, Isotta Fraschini Works, Milan, Italy 461st BG (H), Mission #119 20 October 1944 Target: Isotta Fraschini Works, Milan, Italy After having hammered away despite adverse weather conditions in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany for three weeks in October, the Group was assigned on 20 October to attack the lightly defended Isotta Fraschini Works at Milan, Italy. Weather conditions on this mission were e...		06/29/2007	344
	461st BG (H), Mission 35, Wels Aircraft Factory 30 May, 1944 At Wels, Austria, the Group had the new and pleasant experience of attacking an aircraft factory at which there was no flak. Neither were fighters seen on this mission. The lead navigator, Lt. Dusenberry, carefully kept the Group out of range of the heavily defended areas close to the target. The lead bombardier, Lt. Murphy, completely sprayed the target with incendi...		01/22/2009	514
	461st BG (H), Mission 37, Szolnok Marshalling Yard 2 June 1944 The month of June began auspiciously with an excellent mission against the Marshalling Yards at Szolnok, Hungary. Captain Dooley led the Group with Colonel Glantzberg leading the second section. Good weather, but little flak, no enemy fighters.		05/14/2007	367
	461st BG (H), Mission 55, Beziers Marshalling Yard 5 July 1944 The third target of the month was located in the third country in which the Group had bombed during the month of July. The target was the large Marshalling Yard at Beziers, France. The purpose in hitting this target was that of hampering the movement of two German divisions from Southwest France to the fighting front in Normandy. Photographs of this mission are most ...		05/14/2007	288
	461st BG (H), Mission 78, Almasfuzito Oil Refinery 9 August 1944 The veteran team of Lt. Colonel Knapp, Captain Strong, Lt. King, Lt. Coles, and Lt. Sullivan came through with their second superior mission of the young month when they scored 62 percent on the oil refinery at Almasfuzito, Hungary. Conditions for the attack were ideal -- CAVU weather, no fighters, and not too much flak. Although Captain Strong and Lt. Sullivan did...		05/30/2007	330