8th Air Force 606

5 September 1944

Mission Details

Description: FIGHTER ESCORT

Notes: Specific units not correlated in source data.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

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People

Claude A Chinn

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 56th Fighter Group 63rd Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17115540 / O-702766
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot

Aircraft

43-37983

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Umbriago
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th 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'.