332 FG, October 12, 1944

[Alex Smart]

Hello Gabor,
The Bucholtz book has the story of the event, but gives the date as 11th October.
Followed by the 13th to Blechhammer oil refineries.
63 Mustangs set out for the area between Budapest and Bratislava.
14 a/c of the 99th attacked Kaposvar airfield.
302nd Capt. Wendell PRUITT's flight attacked another landing field.
Lee Archer landed on Vis.
The 100th and 301st went to their assigned targets.
The 100th attacked a railway siding and a factory, damaging three locomotives, three passenger carriages, 30 goods wagons, 25 trucks on a nearby highway and the factory which was surrounded by three parking lots filled with additional 45 trucks.
The 301st with 18 a/c attacked 50 oil barges on the Danube, sinking three and damaging 11 others

Hope this is a help.
Alex


In short, 1Lt. McCREARY, Walter L. O-798950 was hit by flak while strafing and bailed out over Kaspovar,becoming a pow spending the rest of the was in Stalag luft 3 Sagan-Silesia, Bavaria, (moved to Stalag Luft IVA, Nuremberg-Langwasser)
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