8th Air Force 473FB
14 July 1944Mission Details
PARIS
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Notes: P-38 fighter-bomber mission. Specific units not correlated in source data. The loss, from 361 Fighter Group was shot down by an RAF Spitfire by mistake.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 18.5 T
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ContributorAAM
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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'.