319B
26 April 1944Mission Details
COLOGNE (Primary)
Description: INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Notes: 62 B-17s are despatched but are recalled mid-English Channel due to weather. Some of these aircraft carried 2000lb glide bombs on external racks. This was the first attempt to use 2000lb glide bombs.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 0.00
Revisions
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Lee Cunningham, 8th Air Force missions research database / Stan Bishop's 'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces', the Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces and the work of Roger Freeman including the 'Mighty Eighth War Diary'.