Mission No. 120
23 Jul 1944
Station: 166
Target: Fuel Dump at Foret de Conches
A German fuel dump in the Foret de Conches was the target assigned to the Group on the evening of July 23. Thirty-four planes were dispatched at 1715 hours, and thirty-one of these dropped eight 500-pound and eight hundred sixty 100-pound General Purpose bombs and one leaflet bomb on the target. The objective was completely covered by cloud and was located by the Pathfinder, blind bombing technique. One mechanical and two personnel failures caused three of the planes to return to base with their bombs, but there were no losses, casualties, or battle damage on the mission.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THIS MISSION FROM THE GROUP MISSION RECORDS IS AVAILABLE IN THE "CREW LOADLING LIST" SECTION OF THIS WEBSITE here


Box #1 - Lead Flight
Pathfinder
1PFS
???-?
??
Ljunggren
575
847-H
41
Schreiber
575
576-V
38
Schirmer
575
808-C
44
Box #1 - High Flight
Kelley
575
678-M
40
Rutledge
575
838-B
35
Ruble
575
846-P
39
Jannsen
575
620-B
46
Lowder
575
947-U
15
Jacobi
575
932-T
46
Box #1 - Low Flight
Mitchell
575
671-L
40
Kiedinger
575
615-A
41
Tucker
575
844-D
38
Harlow
575
025-S
47
Lakin
575
818-L
29
Wilkinson
575
843-J
46
Martin
575
719-F
13

Box #2 - Lead Flight
Pathfinder
1PFS
???-?
??
Thorn
573
822-O
22
Bjork
573
828-L
24
Holliday
573
831-H
19
Box #2 - High Flight
Rutledge
573
801-G
19
Colsch
573
978-Q
22
Baxter
573
747-T
18
Armstrong
573
820-S
21
Youse
573
102-X
23
Bollinger
573
595-V
17
Box #2 - Low Flight
Alexander
574
927-N
32
Evans
574
842-D
28
Metelsky
574
830-M
25
Watkinson
574
673-A
8
Callison
574
813-J
7
Wolfe
574
810-C
8
Mccarty
572
836-N
14
Box #2 - Spare Flight
Spare Lead
574
815-W
36
Spare Ship
573
806-C
22
Spare Ship
573
634-J
17