8th Air Force 640 Fighter Escort, Operation Frantic VII
18 September 1944Official 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.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
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
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
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'.