8th Air Force 552FB
14 August 1944Mission Details
PARIS
Description: FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSION
Notes: A mix of 136 P-38s and P-47s fly fighter-bomber missions in the Paris area. Specific units not correlated in source data. From this date onward (until Dec-44) the strafing of ground personnel within the borders of France is forbidden.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 39.8 T
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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'.