VIII Fighter Command OFFENSIVE PATROL

10 April 1943

Description

4th Fighter Group despatches 1 P-47 on an offensive patrol.

Mission Details

Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK

Description: FIGHTER PATROL

Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt

Notes: 4th Fighter Group has discontinued flying Spitfires and despatch P-47s. The Spitfire will be used as a photographic aircraft from this point forward.

Mission Statistics

  • Aircraft sent: 2

Revisions

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 30-Dec-2014. Changed title, FO 1 did not occur until 13-Apr-43.

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 29-Dec-2014. Description based on 'The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.

Date
ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 29-Dec-2014. Description 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'.