8th Air Force 644FB
21 September 1944Mission Details
Description: FIGHTER BOMBER
Notes: P-47 and P-51 Fighter Groups took part. Specific units not correlated in source data. A mix of 90 P-47s and P-51s support the First Allied Airborne Army with C-47s dropping supplies and paratroops of the Polish 1st brigade near Driel, Holland. About 50 Luftwaffe fighters are encountered.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
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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'.