SHAEF organized
14 February 1944Description
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.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 5.75
- Aircraft sent: 48
- Aircraft effective: 46
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 9-Feb-2016. Added New Title and Mission Narrative based on "USAAF Combat Chronolory", Jack McKillop.
Lee Cunningham 8-Feb-2016. Operations flagged as DUPLICATE combined with 8th AF Mission 222.
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'.