11th Mission

Target was oil refineries at Misburg, Germany.  12 x 500lb.  Couldn’t see results.  Mission was 7 hours, 4 hours on oxygen.  2500 gals.  51 [P-51] fighter support, hundred of them.  We were told we were going to see 250 enemy fighters.  We didn’t.  Bombing Alt. 23,000.  One man in tail turret died.  Oxygen mask came disconnected.  Plenty of flak, too much in fact.