598

1 September 1944

Mission Details

Description: RAILROAD BRIDGES

Notes: 56th Fighter Group, 78th Fighter Group, 355th Fighter Group, 358th Fighter Group. Claims include 5-0-2 on the ground.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 70 T

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Aircraft

42-107047

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Doodle Bug
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron

42-97093

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Ill Get By
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron

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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'.