8th Air Force

10 August 1944

Mission Details

Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION

Notes: A B-25 was despatched to recon V-Weapon sites

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION

Notes: A B-26 was despatched to recon V-Weapon sites

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

Description: SCOUTING MISSION

Notes: DH98

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

Description: WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION

Notes: DH98

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

ATLANTIC OCEAN

Description: WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

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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'.