Target: Railroad sidings at Briouze, France. Thirty-eight aircraft were dispatched on the mission to bomb in flight of sixes. The bombing results, as determined from strike photos, gave one flight an excellent rating with a concentration on the desired Aiming Point and on a train. The other flights were rated from good to poor. In all, one hundred eighty-four 500 pound and one hundred and eighty-two 250 pound General Purpose bombs were dropped. Because of cloud cover, the planes bombed from 3100 feet. One aircraft was shot down by flak several miles West-Southwest of Caen, and eleven other aircraft sustained flak battle damage from light flak positions. Three crew members were wounded.
Plane and Crew Lost
Plane 42-95848 O8-N (575th Squadron), type B-26B-50-MA Marauder.
Pilot
2Lt. Leroy R. Sullivan, 0-806168, from Fraibault, Minn.
K.I.A.
Co-Pilot
2Lt. John A. Hobson, 0-658821, from Shreveport, La.
K.I.A.
Bombardier
2Lt. Richard E. Ivory, 0-749906, from Kalamazoo, Mich.
Returned 10th June 1944
Engineer-Gunner
T/Sgt. Joseph F. Roberge, 31265792, from Salmon Falls, N.H.
M.I.A.
Radio-Gunner
S/Sgt. Virgil W. Byng, 36815269, from Rala-CynWyd., Pa
Returned 10th June 1944
Armorer-Gunner
S/Sgt. Kenneth D. Peterson, 37220369, from Oxford, Kansas
K.I.A.
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