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7 June 1944Mission Details
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 39 T
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 39 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 1st Bomb Division was made up of 1st Combat Bombardment Wing is 91st Bomb Group, 381st Bomb Group, 398th Bomb Group. 305th Bomb Group also took part.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 284 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 75 T
NANTES (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 490 T
NANTES BRIDGE (Opportunistic)
Description: RAILROAD BRIDGE
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 68 T
NIORT (Opportunistic)
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 4th Combat Bombardment Wing is 94th Bomb Group, 447th Bomb Group, 486th Bomb Group; 13rd Combat Bombardment Wing is 95th Bomb Group, 100th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group, 45Combat Bombardment Wing is 96th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 452nd Bomb Group; 93rd Combat Bombardment Wing is 385th Bomb Group
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 58 T
POUANCE (Opportunistic)
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 39 T
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 8 T
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Notes: 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 34th Bomb Group, 490th Bomb Group, 493rd Bomb Group.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 36 T
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 36 T
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Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: I'll Get By
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Chistlin Daddies
- Unit: 560th Bomb Squadron 388th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pretty Baby
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 325th Bomb Squadron 398th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Round Trip
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group
Revisions
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'.