8th Air Force 578

26 August 1944

Mission 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

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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'.