VIII Fighter Command PATROL & RAF ESCORT

27 February 1943

Description

4th Fighter Group conducts two operations on this date: 16 Spitifires are despatched over the English Channel on shipping patrols; and 24 Spitfires are despatched to provide escort for an RAF mission of Venturas attacking the port facilities at Dunkirk, France.

Mission Details

English Channel

Description: FIGHTER PATROL

Aircraft Type: Spitfire

Notes: Shipping partols.

Mission Statistics

  • Aircraft sent: 16

Dunkirk, France

Description: Escort of RAF Venturas attacking the port facilities at Dunkirk, France.

Aircraft Type: Spitfire

Mission Statistics

  • Aircraft sent: 24

Revisions

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.

Date
ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.

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ContributorAAM
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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'.