635FB

16 September 1944

Mission Details

HANNOVER-BREMEN-OSNABRUCK (Primary)

Description: FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSION

Notes: The P-47s and P-51s bomb and strafe targets in the Hannover-Bremen-Osnabruck areas and bomb Ahlhorn Airfield and the Mannheim-Kaiserslautern area. Claims include 6-0-1 on the ground.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 12.6 T

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Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Little Lady
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 55th Fighter 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'.