Something popped up on my Facebook account this morning, which might interest some here.
It is the sorties record of a navigator flying with the 306th Bomb Group over a seven month period.
What struck me, was not so much the number of flights, but the mixture of targets. With the exception of a consecutive three day battering of Munich in January (and a return again later in the month) there are very few repeats; this shows the widespread pounding of Germany, just by this one Bomb Group alone.
Similarly, the places themselves. Stralsund, right up on the north east corner of the Baltic coast is, today, a holiday town, close to Germany’s largest island, Rugen. I bet it wasn’t too attractive a destination for holiday makers on the morning of 6th October 1944, when elements of the 306th Bomb Group arrived in the sky overhead.
PS I Googled up the 306th’s potted history:
https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/unit/306th-bomb-group-reich-wreckers
And some other pieces:
https://www.306bg.co.uk/
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/306th-bombardment-group/
It is the sorties record of a navigator flying with the 306th Bomb Group over a seven month period.
What struck me, was not so much the number of flights, but the mixture of targets. With the exception of a consecutive three day battering of Munich in January (and a return again later in the month) there are very few repeats; this shows the widespread pounding of Germany, just by this one Bomb Group alone.
Similarly, the places themselves. Stralsund, right up on the north east corner of the Baltic coast is, today, a holiday town, close to Germany’s largest island, Rugen. I bet it wasn’t too attractive a destination for holiday makers on the morning of 6th October 1944, when elements of the 306th Bomb Group arrived in the sky overhead.
PS I Googled up the 306th’s potted history:
https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/unit/306th-bomb-group-reich-wreckers
And some other pieces:
https://www.306bg.co.uk/
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/306th-bombardment-group/