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MACR 6570 - 12/20/2007 02:18:39 PM
Hi Folks,
 
could you tell me the crew list of 454th BG B-24G: 42-78297, lost on July 7, 1944?  Also, how many of them survived the incident and how many were KIA?   What was the side call number of the plane?  Any information of the crash site? 
 
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RE: MACR 6570 - 12/20/2007 05:43:11 PM
I have it as B24G 10 NT 15th AF,464th BG,778th BS, Radio Call Letter:A
BECKHAMMER Germany 07/071944
 
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RE: MACR 6570 - 12/20/2007 07:04:19 PM
I think it was an old assignment.  On July 7th she went down from 454. BG, 737. BS.
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RE: MACR 6570 - 12/25/2007 07:47:35 PM
I have her listed with the 454BG, 737BS as 'Powder Room". No crew or crash information. Also have the 464BG, 778BS note in my database but no explanation - may have transfered in from there. 7-Jul-44 was mission # 75 to Dubnica, Czechoslovakia - target 'Armament Works'.  Posibly lost over Blechhammer, Ger.
 
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RE: MACR 6570 - 12/26/2007 01:19:17 PM
Blechhammer was main target. due to malfunction of bomb aiming device part of 454.BG dercided to drop bombs on Dubnica - target of opprtunity...


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RE: MACR 6570 - 12/27/2007 08:37:24 AM
Just for general intrest here's the COMBAT CHRONOLOGY OF THE US ARMY AIR FORCES for FRIDAY, 7 JULY 1944
MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

  STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 560+ bombers attack in Germany
and Yugoslavia; B-17s bomb 2 synthetic oil plants at Blechhammer, Germany;
B-24s also hit Blechhammer and a synthetic oil and coking plant at Odertal,
Germany and Zagreb, Yugoslavia Airfield and marshalling yard; the bombers and
fighter escorts claim 50+ aircraft shot down during fierce battle with 275-
300 fighters mainly in the Vienna-Budapest area; 18 US aircraft are listed as
destroyed and a larger number missing.

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RE: MACR 6570 - 01/30/2008 05:39:32 PM
Here it is:
 

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RE: MACR 6570 - 01/30/2008 05:43:21 PM
the next page

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RE: MACR 6570 - 01/30/2008 05:47:29 PM
Looks like all crewmembers survived
 

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RE: MACR 6570 - 01/30/2008 05:57:44 PM
except Lt. John Simmons - the Navigator, who was KIA

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RE: MACR 6570 - 01/30/2008 06:09:33 PM
And finally some hints for finding the crash site

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RE: MACR 6570 - 02/04/2008 01:31:36 PM
Thank you guys for all of your help.  I have seen a pic showing 454. BG "Powder Room", but it has a longer horizontal navigator window, so it was a B-24L model, not this B-24G.  Anybody else has picture showing this plane?  Thanks,
 
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