Mission No. 122
25 Jul 1944
Station: 166
Target: Close Support at St. Lo
An assignment to strike in close support of the American ground troops in the Eastern sector of the Normandy front was given to the Group of the morning of July 25. Thirty-six were dispatched at 1040 hrs to
La Chappelle en Jager, a German-defended area near St. Lo, and thirty-five completed the attack, one failing for mechanical reasons. Six hundred eighty-nine 250-pound fragmentation bombs and one leaflet bomb were dropped. The bombing was done by boxes of eighteen, the first box putting a majority of the bombs inside the target area while the second box bombed mainly outside the area, across a main roadway and in open fields. There were no losses, casualties, or battle damage to the formation.

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
Rutledge
573
801-G
19
Colsch
573
978-Q
22
Baxter
573
747-T
18
Armstrong
573
820-S
21
Holliday
573
932-T
45
Bollinger
573
595-V
17
Box #1 - High Flight
Thorn
573
822-O
24
Bjork
573
615-A
41
Clark
573
842-D
28
Boone
573
802-P
21
Cassiday
573
841-A
28
Youse
573
102-X
23
Box #1 - Low Flight
Hollis
574
931-F
34
Wolfe
574
865-D1
34
Callison
574
838-B
35
Horridge
574
873-U
32
Watkinson
574
818-L
29
Metelsky
574
248-V
30
Evans
574
833-U
47

Box #2 - Lead Flight
Erickson
572
673-A
8
Baehr
572
810-C
8
Hanlon
572
812-D
9
Roeper
572
806-M
14
Mccarty
572
836-N
14
Alexander
572
797-P
16
Box #2 - High Flight
Schleicher
572
811-G
6
Blute
572
748-O
6
Barker
572
815-R
16
Smith
572
834-B
9
Walker
572
806-C
22
Reynolds
572
313-Z
5
Box #2 - Low Flight
Dickinson
572
808-X
13
Koehl
572
799-T
15
Jacobs
572
719-F
13
Danforth
572
813-J
7
Dewitt
572
947-U
15
Lowder
572
839-G
37
Harlow
575
025-S
47
Box #2 - Spare Flight
Spare Lead
575
678-M
40
Spare Ship
575
846-P
39
Spare Ship
575
847-H
41