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15 August 1944

Mission Details

BRAINE-LE-COMTES

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: P-47 Fighter Groups took part. 33 of 35 P-47s dive-bomb and skip-bomb a repair shop and locomotives.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 13.8 T

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People

Donald Prytulak

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 467th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 788th Bomb Squadron 859th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-810948
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

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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'.