8th Air Force 640 Fighter Escort, Operation Frantic VII

18 September 1944

Official Description

110 B-17’s and 150 P-51’s (64 P-51’s to continue to USSR) drop supplies to Polish forces at Warsaw. 3 B-17’s abort and 2 are lost. After completing supply drop, 105 B-17’s and the 64 P-51’s proceed to USSR.

Mission Details

Warsaw

Description: FIGHTER ESCORT

Notes: All P-51 Fighter Groups took part. 64 P-51s of 355th Fighter Group continue escort to USSR. Claims include 3-0-6 on the ground.

Mission Statistics

  • People missing in action: 2
  • Enemy aircraft destroyed by fighter: 4
  • Aircraft sent: 150
  • Aircraft effective: 137
  • Aircraft missing in action: 2

Revisions

Date
ContributorEmily
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Sources

USAAF Combat Chronology

Date
ContributorEmily
Changes
Sources

Freeman, Mighty Eighth War Diary
Radzilowski and Szcześniak, Frantic 7: The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944

Date
ContributorAAM
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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'.