VIII Air Support Command PHOTO RECCE
20 June 1943Description
7PRG/13FRS despatches 5 F-5s on photographic reconnaissance sorties over NW France and Bremen, Germany. 1 F-5 is MIA on the Bremen sortie.
Mission Details
NORTH WEST FRANCE / GERMANY
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
Notes: Photo recce mission over NW France and Germany. One makes a sortie over Bremen.
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Mission Statistics
- People killed in action: 1
- Aircraft sent: 5
- Aircraft missing in action: 1
Revisions
ContributorLee8thbuff
Changes
Sources
Lee Cunningham 6-Jan-2015. Description based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.
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'.