8th Air Force 381 (65th Fighter Wing Field Order 102 and 66th Fighter Wing Field Order 62)
30 May 1944Mission Details
BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE (Primary)
Description: RAILROAD BRIDGE
Notes: 26 hit this one
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 12 T
Description: RAILROAD BRIDGE
Notes: 23 hit this one
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 6 T
CREIL (Secondary)
Description: RAILROAD BRIDGE
Notes: 12 hit this one. 1 P47 is lost.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 16 T
LONGUEIL (Primary)
Description: RAILROAD BRIDGE
Notes: 100 P-47s are despatched to hit these bridges. 1 P-38 is used by 56th Fighter Group to sight for high level P-47 drop. 37 hit this one
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
![Ground crew of the 356th Fighter Group congratulate the pilot of a P-47 Thunderbolt nicknamed "Zombie" at Martlesham Heath air base. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'ZOMBIE yellow, black outline. [illegible text] black white common practice of 361st FS.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-377162.jpg.webp?itok=Cj8CR9kY)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 37 T HE
Revisions
ContributorAAM
Changes
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'.