8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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"FRANCE-If Allied bombing hadn't been too thorough, this hangar at a former German Air Base in France, now serving as a base for a 9th Tactical Air Command fighter group, might have housed the 9th Air Force Republic P-47 Thunderbolt pictured here."
Connections
Units
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365th Fighter Group
Group
The Group moved to England in December 1943 as part of the Ninth Air Force. Flying P-47s, the Group took part in missions over northern France designed to weaken Germany's ability to repulse the planned Allied invasion of summer 1944. After the... -
386th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
Locations
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Juvincourt
Military site : airfield
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 30 June 2018 17:19:37 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with caption, unit associations and place associations |
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