8th Air Force
17 August 1944Mission Details
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Notes: A B-25 was despatched photo recon V-Weapon sites.
- 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 photo recon V-Weapon sites.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Notes: DH98
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Notes: DH98 H2X scope photo sorties
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Notes: DH98 photo recon V-Weapon sites.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Description: WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
BREST
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Notes: DH98
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
BREST
Description: SCOUTING MISSION
Notes: DH98
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
CARPETBAGGER
Description: CARPETBAGGER MISSION
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
CONTINENT
Description: WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Notes: DH98
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Revisions
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'.