8th Air Force 578
26 August 1944Mission Details
Description: FIGHTER ESCORT
Notes: P-47 Fighter Groups took part. Specific units not correlated in source data.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
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Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Farmer's Daughter
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron 615th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
ContributorAAM
Changes
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'.