SHAEF organized

14 February 1944

Description

General Dwight D. Eisenhower establishes HQ Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Commander (COSSAC) comes under conrtol of SHAEF.

Mission Details

EINDHOVEN (Primary)

Description: AIRFIELD

Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt

Notes: Target is obscured by clouds.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 0.00

GILZE-RIJEN (Opportunistic)

Description: AIRFIELD

Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt

Notes: Secondary Gilze-Rizen is hit instead. 48 P-47s are despatched, 46 of these hit Gilze-Rizen. No claims on enemy aircraft.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 5.75
  • Aircraft sent: 48
  • Aircraft effective: 46

Revisions

Date
ContributorLee8thbuff
Changes
Sources

Lee Cunningham 9-Feb-2016. Added New Title and Mission Narrative based on "USAAF Combat Chronolory", Jack McKillop.

Date
ContributorLee8thbuff
Changes
Sources

Lee Cunningham 8-Feb-2016. Operations flagged as DUPLICATE combined with 8th AF Mission 222.

Date
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'.