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303rd Bomb Group (H) History
November 20, 1944
303rd BG (H) Combat Mission No. 274
Target: Buer Synthetic Oil Refinery at Gelsenkirchen, Ger.
Crews Dispatched: 50
Length of Mission: 6 hours, 15 minutes
Bomb Load: 20 x 250 lb H.E. M57 bombs
Bombing Altitudes: 28,600, 27,750, 28,500, 29,300 & 27,400 ft
Ammo Fired: 2,070 rounds
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November 20, 1944
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS 8th AF: 2 missions are flown. Mission 718: 172 B-17s are sent to hit the Schowen oil plant at Gelsenkirchen (61); 93 hit the secondary, the marshalling yard at Munster; 25 B-17s are damaged. Escort is 214 P-47s and P-51s; no losses. Other flights: 12 of 12 B-17s fly a screening mission. 310 P-47s and P-51s make fighter-bomber strikes agains miscellaneous targets in W Germany; 1 P-47 and 7 P-51s are lost (pilots MIA) and 1 P-51 is damaged beyond repair. 12 of 12 P-51s fly a scouting mission. Mission 719: 6 B-17s and 7 B-24s drop leaflets on the Netherlands, France and Germany during the night.
November 20, 1945
Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.
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