8th Air Force 559FB

17 August 1944

Mission Details

Description: FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSION

PARIS/BRUSSELS

Description: FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSION

Notes: All fighter groups participate except 20th Fighter Group and 361st Fighter Group. Specific unites not correlated in source data. All claims are on the ground.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 172 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'.