8th Air Force

25 September 1944

Mission Details

NIJMEGEN

Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

TRUCKIN OPERATION

Description: TRUCKIN' MISSION

Notes: 76 B-24s fly a TRUCKIN' Mission to France. 1 B-24 is lost ( no data on casualties).

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 709th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 355th Fighter Group 389th Bomb Group 354th Fighter Squadron 564th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17072666 / O-710450
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bomber pilot / Fighter 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'.